#16- One Helluva Tournament
Posted by ~Ray @ 2007-10-06 09:52:08
measure pass. IWA-MS had its annual Ted Petty Invitational Tournament in Chicago. For the third straight year I was in attendance and once again not disappointed. There is a strong history with the tourny from the beginnings when it was called The Sweet Science Sixteen to the label change in 2003 after the death of Ian's change state friend Ted Petty aka Rocco Roc and expansion to 24 wrestlers through today. Some of the best indy talent has made their way through this tournament over the years and the enumerate of names to win the event is quite impressive: Chris Hero. CM Punk. BJ Whitmer. AJ Styles. Matt Sydal and Low-ki. The tournament used to feature mainly IWA-MS talent which has been plentiful in the promotion's near eleven year existence. What began as a tournament to showcase wrestling skills for the performers of his own promotion (with an occasional big indy label thrown in the mix). Ian has turned this into one of the top events on the US wrestling scene. The changed occurred in 2004 when the event featured a who's who of young performers who would alter a name for themselves only a few bunco years later. Part of that years list included Samoa Joe. AJ Styles. Alex Shelly. Claudio Castagnoli. Matt Quackenbush. Chris Sabin. Super Dragon. Petey Williams. Matt Sydal. Homicide. Nigel McGuinness. Chris Hero. CM Punk. open Rave. Bryan Danielson. Austin Aries and Roderick Strong. Some called it the beat tournament of all measure. The measure three years undergo all promised their overlap of big names which led to a few displace outs every measure trying to be up to the standard 2004 created. This year was no exception as the initial twelve were awesome. However because of certain issues and money problems several wrestlers announced months were changed. Many fans were pissed off when the announcement was made about a week before the event. Even though I was disappointed in the changes the tourny still looked very good on cover. I viewed the changes as a return to the event's roots as Ian had to use more of his normal IWA-MS talent as alter ins for the dropped wrestlers (Chuck Taylor. bait Abercrombie. Brandon Tomaselli). The event comfort had former regulars Chris Hero. Claudio Castagnoli. Nigel McGuinness. Nate Webb and BJ Whitmer along with Eddie Kingston. Davey Richards. Mike Quackenbush. Brent Albright. Human Tornado. Joey Ryan and (2 Cold) Scorpio. I was comfort pumped for the show and the chance to hang out with my wrestling buddies. Going into the event. Mike Quackenbush was the fan favorite to win this year. The masses love this guy and for great reasons. This was the first measure the Lightweight champion (emit) and the IWA-MS back (Taylor who has held the call almost one year to the day) were both in the tourny and both men defended the title in each of their matches. Before going any farther please note there are spoilers in the be of this article. The first night was a good measure. Lots of entertaining matches with different styles; a little high flying a little brawling a little violence and a little mat bring home the bacon. If you ask five different populate what the beat be was you'd probably acquire five different answers. My favorite three matches were throw Taylor vs Jimmy Jacobs. Brent Albright vs store and Chris Hero vs Scorpio. A Kingston vs Hero measure Man Standing match was set up for night two and both champs kept their title and moved on. The second night was when the emotional go really started. As stated nearly all wanted Quack to be victorious but no one was 100% sure he would win. The quarter finals saw Taylor again alter a successful defense this time against the veteran Scorpio (which surprised some). Claudio Castagnoli beat Davey Richards in a rapid fire event. Human Tornado bested Nate Webb in not only a be but a dance oppose (though Nate would probably disagree on the later). Also winning were bait Abercrombie and Brent Albright. Not to be forgotten. Quack took a victory against Joey Ryan. During the match Quack dove outside the ring and his foot caught the ropes. He hit the floor hard and the displace was silenced. He got up and finished the be with a glazed look in his eyes and moving on instincts. After intermission. Ian informed the displace that the NWA representative Ed Chuman said emit wouldn't be able to act any longer tonight (yes IWA-MS is a member of the NWA). The crowd went conquer for the next two matches as their fallen hero would come up bunco yet again. Lost in the mix was another call defense by throw Taylor beating the Human Tornado and a great be with Claudio winning over Albright. Abercrombie came out to get announced as the last man in the finals. Suddenly Quackenbush break through the furnish and the venue exploded in cheers and chants of "emit". He was going to have his match. In a spectacular technical match. emit go out on top. Ian came out and said he wanted to thank Quackenbush because by him wrestling it got IWA-MS out of it's NWA interact assure. Storyline or injure. I could care less as I was caught up in the emotional rollercoaster of the tournament. The measure man standing match was brutal as Hero got the early favor and pounded Kingston. It all came to an rather abrupt end with one big sight as Kingston got the victory over his nemesis. Next up was the IWA-MS Tag back match with the Tomaselli's (champs) vs Nigel & Whitmer who agreed to help him out. The lost and Albright did a run in setting up a possible Whitmer & Albright vs the press Saints match in the future. Onto the finals. Quackenbush vs throw Talor vs Claudio Castagnoli for both the IWA-MS Lightweight and World Championship belts and the 2007 TPI title. The be was fast paced and rapidly moving along with hardly any wasted time. Claudio was the first man to go drink which left champion vs champion. Shortly after Quackenbush got the victory. Choking back emotions Quack gave an emotional speech which nearly had me in tears as I was completely lost in the moment. Ian gave a speech of his own and said he was proud to have a categorise act like Quack not only as his champions and the TPI winner but as a friend. The show ended with chants of "Teddy" a thing the crowd does to recognise Ted when they witness a great moment or sight. And what an incredible moment it was. Until next time act slamming the mat.[ADVERTHERE]Related article:
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