At the opening of the show, Devon Raynes came out and introduced himself to the fans and made a challenge to his old GTW foe, Dylan Hale. He basically said that he was not satisfied with how their matches had turned out. Dylan Hale came out and accepted the challenge.
1st Match - The Convict vs. Executuioner Dagger.
Back and forth contest with Convict having a slight advantage maybe. They went to a 15 mniute draw but both men agreed to a "5-minute overtime". At about 3 minutes into the 5 minute OT, The Convict hit Dagger with a spinebuster to put him down for the count. Executioner Axe hit the ring and attacked Convict but Dagger pulled Axe off and said "I'm my own man when we're not tagging and I don't need your help". Axe retorted, "Im your father and you can't tell me what to do and not to do" - this arguement continued all the way to the back. The Convict went to the promoter Ronnie Watkins and demanded a tag-team match for him and his partner The Convict #2 against the Executioners on the big anniversary show in 2 weeks. Watkins agreed to the request.
2nd Match - Devon Raynes vs. Dyaln Hale. A straight babyface "sceintific" match for 12 of the 15 minute time limit, but around that time Devon Raynes started taking a few short-cuts, including one low-blow. But at the conclusion of the time limit, the two men shook hands and Raynes even raised Hale's hand but then WHAM-OO!! he clotheslined him, went to punching and kicking him, and delivered something he called the Krytonite Krush on Hale. He then placed Dylan's head into the folds of a steel chair and was about to stomp when Trainwreck hit the ring for the save.
3rd Match - For the ICW US/Mexican Title. Trainwreck vs. Dirty Sanchez (Champion) Another good wrestling match that deteriorated into a brawl. Both men went out of the ring fighting all over, and Sanchez wound up bloody. The match ended on a double count-out of the ring. Promoter Ronnie Watkins announced that the two would be back in a "return championship match" on 5-17 in a no count-out,no disqualification match. This match went about 25 minutes.
MAIN EVENT - The Scorpion and PorkChop Cash vs. "Outlaw JD Mckay" and Mitch Toretta in a 2 out of 3 falls tag-team "Country Whipping Match". The man pinned in the third and final fall has to take 10 lashes from the winning team.
First fall saw Mitch Toretta pin The Scorpion out of nowhere. Not sure how it happened.
Second fall saw the referee disqualify the Toretta/McKay team when Toretta would not release an illegal hold he had on PorkChop Cash - I think I heard someone call it "the testicular claw".
Third fall saw all four men in the ring battling until Cash got McKay with a strong punch to the stomach, and then as "the Outlaw" was getting back to his feet, Cash hit him with his famous headbutt. McKay went down 1-2-3.
Needless to say, "the Outlaw" was not happy and after taking one REAL strong lash from Cash, he begged off and told everyone he would do anything to not have to take any more "whipping" - PorkChop asked "Anything?" and McKay said yeah. So Cash asked for a shot at the ICW title at the big anniversary show on 5-17. After much hem-hawing and a threatening of suspension and fines, McKay agreed to give PorkChop the championship match on 5-17. That was not all tho as McKay and Cash went at each other again, and even promoter Ronnie Watkins ended up involved. It was a wild scene at the end....and all this went probably around 45 minutes. Big pop on the Cash pin of McKay and the fans stayed to see everything that went down.
----84 in the crowd, which was double from last time…Only four matches but the card went like 2 and 1/2 hours. Strong old-fashioned style show….ICW celebrates its THIRD anniversary on 5-17 in Mathiston with a Steel Cage match headlining. Tommy Rich, Brian Christopher, Derrick King, and PorkChop Cash are all booked to appear in addition to the ICW regulars. The group is hoping to pull in at least 200 for this super show…I left this report pretty much as it was written as I got a “kick out” of the wording of some of this stuff – “WHAM-OO!!” and “hem-hawing” – loved that!!
