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IWA-MS Ted Petty Invitational 2006
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IWA-MS Ted Petty Invitational 2006
September 29th, 2006
THE MIDLOTHIAN THUNDERDOME
Midlothian, IL


As always, everyone comes out for a group photo. There's a fair amount of PWG and CHIKARA representatives to give some diversity to the line-up here. Really stacked line up, excluding Ricky Reyes and Brandon Thomselli. Trik Davis and Erick Stevens are borderline. Lacks that HUGE name like an AJ Styles, CM Punk, Bryan Danielson, or Samoa Joe, but looks great regardless.

Match #1: Ricochet vs. M-Dogg 20 [1st Round]
M-Dogg somehow got his way into both BOLA and TPI in 2006 and negotiated himself a one-year ROH run before people remembered he has nothing to offer again. Good for him for somehow fooling people again. Decent flyer vs. flyer match going on. Ricochet is still pretty inexperienced, and only shows glimpses of how good he would become. M-Dogg wins with the SSP.
**1/2

Match #2: Mike Quackenbush vs. Colt Cabana [1st Round]

Super fun and entertaining mat wrestling dream match. Lots of crazy escapes and counters, and all of the stuff looks really smooth and tight. Cabana has good focus on Quack's bad back. Quack gets a nasty Reverse Huracanrana and then the QD3 for the win.
***

Match #3: Chris Hero vs. Ricky Reyes [1st Round]

Hero does the best he can. He gives Reyes a ton of offense to make him look good, which is a great idea in theory, but then you realize that means a lot of Ricky Reyes offense, and that the only way to make Ricky look good is to team him with Rocky Romero and to let Rocky do most of the work. Hero's control seg was great though. Hero wins with the Moonsault.
**3/4

Match #4: Hallowicked vs. Scorpio Sky [1st Round]

PWG VS. CHIKARA! Shame they got the wrong member of AXP, but whatever. Lots of lots of fun. Sky has a great dive and a solid control segment, and Hallowicked gets to break out a lot of awesome offense too. Both men wind up looking really great. Hallowicked gets the win with the Super Fisherman's Buster.
***

Match #5: Erick Stevens vs. Trik Davis [1st Round]

Trik has somewhat of an infuriating career. He spent a lot of it trying to be a Chris Hero style grappler and was a fine technician, but he couldn't throw strikes for shit and was a bad babyface do being really unlikeable and ugly. He started to get a lot smoother around 2007, and then in the summer of 2008, he had an epiphany and was INCREDIBLE for a few months as a shit talking cowardly heel, blending his unlikeability with his actual mat skill and had some awesome matches, especially against Sami Callihan and a great showing in the 2008 TPI. Unfortunately, the 2008 TPI was basically the swan song for IWA-MS, and he hasn't shown up anywhere that makes film regularly, so he's sort of fallen off the face of the Earth just after finally getting great. Stevens is decent, and Trik wins with a roll up.
**1/2

As Trik leaves, Chris Hero jumps him from behind, and he batters Trik's arm with a chair.

Match #6: Chris Bosh vs. El Generico [1st Round]
Bosh is always great at these sub-15 minute spotfest touring matches. Generico is the perfect babyface for him to do it with since he sells and bumps like nobody else, has a great dive, and has some nasty offense of his own to throw out. Some awesome and huge and dangerous as fuck spots. Generico wins with the BRAINBUSTAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH.
***

Match #7: Davey Richards vs. Jigsaw [1st Round]

Good enough stuff. Kind of an awkward mix of styles, and Davey ends up eating Jig alive. Picked up a lot when Jig began to trade strikes with him, and they had some awesome exchanges. Davey wins with the 14:59.
**3/4

Match #8: Roderick Strong vs. Brandon Thomaselli [1st Round]

This sure happened. Strong is a moron and gives Brandon 90% of the match only to make a 90 second comeback to win. Like the Hero match, this is a generous idea in theory, but not when you have an opponent who is this mediocre. Strong wins with the Gibson Driver.
**1/4

Match #9: Kevin Steen vs. Claudio Castagnoli [1st Round]

More fun than great due to it only being like 8 minutes and it being more about generic cheating from Steen. They have some decent stuff at the end, and Claudio hits a Rolling European Uppercut to win.
**3/4

Match #10: Low Ki vs. Gran Akuma [1st Round]

This absolutely did not need 18 minutes, but it was still great. Lots of really nasty strikes as you might expect. Ki did a great job of gradually getting more and more vicious when he got pissed off about a young guy finally being able to throw strikes as well as him, in theory. Ki hits the Warrior's Way for the win.
***

Match #11: Scott Lost vs. Delirious [1st Round]

This is a waste of Lost, but it's fine enough anyways. Lost yet again delivers a ton of awesomely inventive offense. Delirious wins with the Cobra Stretch.
**3/4

Match #12: Arik Cannon vs. B-Boy [1st Round]

The final match of the night, thankfully. Surprisingly enjoyable move and strikefest. Some really fantastic chops and forearms and punches. Cannon wins with the Glimmering Warlock.
***

YOUR QUARTERFINALS:

Low Ki vs. Davey Richards
El Generico vs. M-Dogg 20

Mike Quackenbush vs. Claudio Castagnoli
Arik Cannon vs. Hallowicked

Roderick Strong vs. Delirious
Chris Hero vs. Trik Davis
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IWA-MS TED PETTY INVITATIONAL 2006 NIGHT TWO
SEPTEMBER 30TH, 2006
MIDLOTHIAN, IL

Match #1: El Generico vs. M-Dogg 20 [Quarterfinals]

Fun spotfest. Generico does fine work getting something almost great out of M-Dogg, but it took a little bit to get going and suffered as a result. Awesome finishing run, and Generico wins with the BRAINBUSTAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH.
**1/2

Match #2: Mike Quackenbush vs. Claudio Castagnoli [Quarterfinals]

This is pretty clearly the match of the weekend. Also probably their best match together, just due to everything clicking PERFECTLY in front of a hot crowd. Their 2005 match had a super hot crowd too, which seems to be the key between great and classic with this pairing, but this is Claudio beginning to become great as a singles guy. He's improved at bumping, selling, and has a much wider arsenal of offense than in 2005. Beautiful dives, lucha, counters, etc. Nearly 6 years later, lots of this stuff is still mindblowing. Claudio counters the Snap Rana into a snap Sunset Flip to win.
***1/2

Match #3: Low Ki vs. Davey Richards [Quarterfinals]

Great match. Ki is able to reign Davey in, and really, Ki is the best possible Davey Richards. Super serious, but has a good grasp of when to give stuff to guys and how to protect his big moves while still putting guys over by being able to survive stuff, like Akuma on Night 1. Anyways, great matwork, awesome kicks, etc. Ki just destroys Davey with the Warrior's Way for the win.
***

Match #4: Chris Hero vs. Trik Davis [Quarterfinals]

Hero once again gets the best match possible from Trik. Hero delivers a really fucking violent and assholish control seg on Trik, actually getting me to feel sympathy for that hideous fuck. Ben Jordan is great at making nearfalls seem like they could really be it through his enthusiasm. Trik gets some awesome nearfalls in, but Hero then targets the fucked up arm and reinjures it. Hero gets the Breaks Special for the win.
***1/2

Match #5: Arik Cannon vs. Hallowicked [Quarterfinals]

Really great sleeper match. Lucha and head drops. Cannon wins with the Glimmering Warlock.
***

Match #6: Roderick Strong vs. Delirious [Quarterfinals]

This happened. Strong does moves. Delirious cannot sell. Stronghold wins.
**3/4

Match #7: The Iron Sain -- NOPE

Match #8: Tag Team Gauntlet

Arrogance and B-Boy/Reyes start. Apparently, this is not a gauntlet and merely a match where a new team enters every 3-5 minutes. Arrogance rules the earth. Next team is Colt Cabana and Kevin Steen! They do comedy, and Jigsaw and Akuma are in next. Bosh goes nuts with the Lioncock on everyone. Scorpio Sky and Erick Stevens are next and Cabana now acts like it's a battle royal and throws everyone out and points to the corner of the building. AMAZING. North Star Express is next. It gets totally insane, comedy, dives, more comedy, some cool spots. NSE win with the Cruz Control on B-Bou.
Pro Fucking Wrestling

Match #9: Arik Cannon vs. Claudio Castagnoli [Semi-Finals]

Great matwork to begin. Claudio takes over with power and has some more incredible power spots. Awesome awesome strike-heavy finishing run. I knew the result, but after how the match had gone, I forgot he was supposed to win at all. Claudio had him just about beat, but when he went for a Rolling European Uppercut, Cannon cut him off with a nasty punch and hit the Glimmering Warlock to win.
***

Match #10: Chris Hero vs. Roderick Strong [Semi-Finals]

Obviously great match. Strong kills Hero with chops to begin, so Hero then attacks Strong's arm. Typically great Hero body part work. Of course, it's Roderick Strong, so he's not selling shit. Not bad selling, just not really there. They do a lot of awesome stuff to make it great anyways. Strong wins with the Stronghold, since they are saving Hero/Ki for shows that people weren't already going to automatically buy like the TPI, because this was back when IWA-MS was mostly booked like a normal promotion that makes sense.
***

Match #11: Low Ki vs. El Generico [Semi-Finals]

This is your basic underdog vs. unstoppable force deal. Ki hits hard, Generico sells like the motherfucker. Too short to be a great match at only like 7 minutes, but it was everything you'd want from this pairing otherwise. Ki wins with the Ghetto Stomp.
**3/4

Match #12: Josh Abercrombie [c] vs. Tyler Black [IWA-MS Light Heavyweight Championship - LOSER LEAVES IWA (for six months)]

They actually have some awesome matwork, which is shocking and clearly all Josh's doing. Decent nearfalls and shit. Jim Fannin comes out to distract the ref, and Jimmy Jacobs runs from the crowd and hits him with brass knuckles and Josh covers to retain the belt.
**3/4

They all embrace, and Fannin then tells them to go fuck themselves and Iceberg and Bull Pain jump them. God fucking damnit. They beat on them with bats and Toby Klein comes out to save. But he gets caught in a 2 on 1 and is beaten down. They leave him, AND CHUCK TAYLOR RUNS OUT TO START THE WORLD TITLE MATCH! SON OF A BITCH!

Match #13: Toby Klein [c] vs. Chuck Taylor [IWA-MS Heavyweight Championship]
Toby's selling is great, but this is more of an angle than anything. Toby's arm is hurt, and Chuck has a decent control segment as usual. Toby gets crotched on the top, AND CHUCK YANKS HIM DOWN WITH THE OMEGA DRIVER! ONE...TWO...THREE?! WHAT?! EVEN CHUCK IS SHOCKED! Something AMAZING has begun, in Chuck's epic one year title reign. Which would be great to review stuff from, but so much IWA-MS has slipped into the void of the internet.
**3/4

Match #14: Arik Cannon vs. Roderick Strong vs. Low Ki [2006 TED PETTY INVITATIONAL TOURNAMENT FINALS]

Great match. Lots of awesome strikes and head drops. It's these three, so expecting anything but a display of offense is stupid, and it's good for what they do. Drags in the middle, since they go unnecessarily long, but it picks up again for an awesome finishing run. Ki beats Cannon with the Dragon Clutch to win the tournament.
***


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