Strong Style Typings: IWS Un F'N Sanctioned 09/27

[Llakor]

Strong Style Typings
Un F'N Sanctioned

We are 27 days away from the biggest IWS show of the year. On September 27th, the IWS presents Un F'N Sanctioned 2008, and with the name Un F'N Sanctioned comes the damnedest, sickest, bloddiest, most violent match in Canada, Fans Bring The Weapons.

To countdown to this show, every day until September 26th, I will be releasing a new tidbit of news. (Or at least that's the plan.)

A SPECIAL GUEST[/u]

As though who have already bought their tickets for Un F'N Sanctioned know, the IWS will be inviting two special guests to this year's show at the Medley. The first is three-time WWE tag team champion JOEY MERCURY. More news about why Joey Mercury is coming to Montreal and who his opponent will be soon.

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TICKET SPECIAL[/u]
While I still have VIP tickets left, they are $25 taxes in. If you order one with a DVD, the ticket and DVD are $40 + shipping. Contact me for bulk orders.

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The IWS proudly presents: Un F’N Sanctioned, Main Event is FANS BRING THE WEAPONS! Saturday, September 27th, at the beautiful, downtown Medley, 1170 St-Denis, near the Berri-UQAM Metro. Montreal, Quebec, CANADA. Doors open at 7:30 PM, show starts at 9 PM. VIP tickets are $25, Regular tickets are $20. VIP ticket holders admitted first. No reserved seating. Tickets can be purchased online at www.ticketpro.ca or in person at the Medley box office. 18+. Card and times subject to change. For more information go to www.syndicatewrestling.com or e-mail [e-mail] .

[laing420]

I can't for the life of me figure out who Kevin Steen is gonna fight at this show. I'm 90% vs 10% for going to this show instead of TPI. Its an hour shorter drive and I'm dying to go back to the Medley. The only way to change my mind is if the undercard for this show is crap.

[Llakor]

Sept 1, 2008 21:51:27 GMT -5 @laing420 said:

I can't for the life of me figure out who Kevin Steen is gonna fight at this show. I'm 90% vs 10% for going to this show instead of TPI. Its an hour shorter drive and I'm dying to go back to the Medley. The only way to change my mind is if the undercard for this show is crap.

Medley Show? With a sucky undercard? NOT POSSIBLE!

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Strong Style Typings
My Cousin Joey

A SPECIAL GUEST II: Electric Bugaloo

In addition to JOEY MERCURY, the other IWS Special Guest at Un F'N Sanctioned will be flying in from California: PWG wrestler JOEY RYAN.

Who may or may not be a cousin of mine, but rather than compare family trees to see if we share roots, I'm just declaring that he is a cousin of mine and moving on.

Compared to Joey Mercury, we know a little bit more about what "My American Cousin" will be up to in Montreal. During the semi-final match of the Extreme Dream tournament to crown a new IWS Canadian Champion between EXesS and "Paranoid" JAKE MATTHEWS, Joey Ryan's music started playing at a critical moment distracting Jake and allowing EXesS to lock in a side-triangle choke which eventually gave the Baby-Oil Phenom the win over the IWS' resident shovel-wielding maniac.

So, I think it is fair to say that we can expect to see a match at Un F'N Sanctioned involving both Joey Ryan and Jake Matthews. The critical question would be WHY Joey Ryan would want to get involved with Jake Matthews? Does he have some sort of shovel fetish?

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TICKET SPECIAL[/u]

While I still have VIP tickets left, they are $25 taxes in. If you order one with a DVD, the ticket and DVD are $40 + shipping. Contact me for bulk orders.

SPECIAL TICKET BONUS

I have a small number of red t-shirts that were made for Fans Bring The Weapons at Un F'N Sanctioned 2005 SIGNED by Manny, Evil Ninja and the Arsenal. (all in XL I think) I will give one of these shirts FREE to the next order that I get for $100 worth of tickets to Un F'N Sanctioned 2008. (Plus reasonable shipping charges)


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The IWS proudly presents: Un F’N Sanctioned, Main Event is FANS BRING THE WEAPONS! Saturday, September 27th, at the beautiful, downtown Medley, 1170 St-Denis, near the Berri-UQAM Metro. Montreal, Quebec, CANADA. Doors open at 7:30 PM, show starts at 9 PM. VIP tickets are $25, Regular tickets are $20. VIP ticket holders admitted first. No reserved seating. Tickets can be purchased online at www.ticketpro.ca or in person at the Medley box office. 18+. Card and times subject to change. For more information go to www.syndicatewrestling.com or e-mail [e-mail] .

[Llakor]

Strong Style Typings
Snakes and LADDERS!

Tag Team Turmoil

Hardcore Heat 2008 left the IWS tag Team division in controversy, chaos and confusion. During a match to determine the Number One Contenders for the IWS Tag Team Title between THE UNTOUCHABLES and THE SUPER SMASH BROTHERS the match ended inconclusively when DAN PAYSAN pinned PLAYER UNO at the exact same time that STUPEFIED pinned JIMMY STONE.

So, with one half of each team getting the pin, who are the number one contenders? Stupefied and Dan Paysan? And what would that team be called? The cow-licks?

Fortunately for everyone, the new IWS Tag Team Champions UP IN SMOKE offered a suggestion while taking a brownie break from their busy training schedule. Actually, CHEECH offered the suggestion, CLOUDY just giggled.

Now, granted Cheech's suggestion was a little cryptic. We asked him how we should figure out which team to give the title shot to and Cheech started singing the lyrics to "Eight Miles High" and when we asked him what that meant. Cheech started singing something about climbing a ladder to the sky.

Well, this can only mean one thing:

LADDER MATCH!

LADDER MATCH AT THE MEDLEY!!

IWS Tag Team Title Ladder Match: IWS Champions Up in Smoke (Cheech and Cloudy) vs. the Super Smash Brothers (Stupefied and Player Uno) vs. the Untouchables (Dan Paysan and Jimmy Stone)

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TICKET SPECIAL[/u]

While I still have VIP tickets left, they are $25 taxes in. If you order one with a DVD, the ticket and DVD are $40 + shipping. Contact me for bulk orders.

SPECIAL TICKET BONUS

I have a small number of red t-shirts that were made for Fans Bring The Weapons at Un F'N Sanctioned 2005 SIGNED by Manny, Evil Ninja and the Arsenal. (all in XL I think) I will give one of these shirts FREE to the next order that I get for $100 worth of tickets to Un F'N Sanctioned 2008. (Plus reasonable shipping charges)


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IWS Un F'N Sanctioned Card to Date:

IWS Tag Team Title Ladder Match: IWS Champions Up in Smoke (Cheech and Cloudy) vs. the Super Smash Brothers (Stupefied and Player Uno) vs. the Untouchables (Dan Paysan and Jimmy Stone)


The IWS proudly presents: Un F’N Sanctioned, Main Event is FANS BRING THE WEAPONS! Saturday, September 27th, at the beautiful, downtown Medley, 1170 St-Denis, near the Berri-UQAM Metro. Montreal, Quebec, CANADA. Doors open at 7:30 PM, show starts at 9 PM. VIP tickets are $25, Regular tickets are $20. VIP ticket holders admitted first. No reserved seating. Tickets can be purchased online at www.ticketpro.ca or in person at the Medley box office. 18+. Card and times subject to change. For more information go to www.syndicatewrestling.com or e-mail [e-mail] .

[laing420]

Llakor, you pretty much sealed the deal with that match. That match guarantees about 5-10 holy shit moments.

[Llakor]

Sept 3, 2008 20:53:06 GMT -5 @laing420 said:

Llakor, you pretty much sealed the deal with that match. That match guarantees about 5-10 holy shit moments.

Bring Friends.

[Llakor]

Strong Style Typings
A Shit Becomes THE SHIT

Shayne Hawke

Let's talk about one of the two finalists for the Extreme Dream tournament for the IWS Canadian Title: SHAYNE HAWKE

The IWS Canadian Title became vacant after the IWS Title Committee stripped IWS Champion Kevin Steen of the Canadian Title after he beat Maxime Boyer for the belt in a Title vs. Title match.

Shayne's Extreme Dream Path:
Beat Twiggy
Beat Sabian (Sabian replaced Samson who withdrew from the tournament after beating Vanessa Kraven.)

So what do we know about Shayne Hawke?

He is one of a group of wrestlers trained by IWS wrestlers. While the training was a group effort, Twiggy could best be described as El Generico's pupil, Pornstar Juan was Beef's Wellington's project and Shayne Hawke was Fred la Merveille's protege.

And it was in Fred la Merveille's SLI-USA that Shayne Hawke first made his mark in the IWS, although clearly it was Maxime Boyer who emerged as the new star of that group.

Like his mentor, Shayne Hawke is so good on the mike that it sometimes clouds how good a technical wrestler he actually is. This is compounded by bad habits. In Fred's case, it is Fred's inability to stop clowning. In Shayne's case, it is his commitment to being an incredible pain in the ass. Hawke is so damn good at being an annoying pest that it sometimes gets in the way of his success in the ring.

Quick confession here. I have wasted a lot of ink busting on "Shit" Hawke. He has at times taken me to task for it, like the time when I complained about his theme music by the Dropkick Murphy's - not because the song is bad - I LOVE the song, but because the song was too AWESOME to be used by Shayne Hawke. As he put it to me: "I can't win for losing with you."

Every once in a while, you get glimpses of how amazing Fred could be as a wrestler, if he would just take things seriously. For this to happen, one of two things have to happen: Fred's health or life have to be in danger OR Fred has to be so pissed off he forgets to be funny.

Best example of a pissed off Fred is his match against Kevin Steen (Blood, Sweat and Beers 2004).

This year, Shayne Hawke has shown signs of transforming himself - evolving from annoying pest to tenacious hero. Like Fred la Merveille, Shayne showed the best example of this when someone PISSED Hawke off, specifically a former tag-team partner who beat Hawke within an inch of his life. Suddenly, everything that annoyed you about Hawke, his refusal to go away, became heroic.

The biggest knock on Shayne Hawke was always that for an IWS wrestler, he seemed to have his best matches everywhere but in the IWS. That changed at Scarred for Life 2008 when Shayne Hawke proved once and for all that he deserved a place in the IWS - that he was IWS to the blood and bone - by beating his former tag-team partner with a leveraged roll-up and then enduring and overcoming the beating that this former partner dished out when he snapped on Hawke after losing to him.

That former tag team partner? The guy that brought out the best in Shayne Hawke? Former IWS Champion, Former IWS Tag Team Champion, EXesS...

More about HIM tomorrow.

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TICKET SPECIAL[/u]

While I still have VIP tickets left, they are $25 taxes in. If you order one with a DVD, the ticket and DVD are $40 + shipping. Contact me for bulk orders.

SPECIAL TICKET BONUS

I have a small number of red t-shirts that were made for Fans Bring The Weapons at Un F'N Sanctioned 2005 SIGNED by Manny, Evil Ninja and the Arsenal. (all in XL I think) I will give one of these shirts FREE to the next order that I get for $100 worth of tickets to Un F'N Sanctioned 2008. (Plus reasonable shipping charges)


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IWS Un F'N Sanctioned Card to Date:

IWS Tag Team Title Ladder Match: IWS Champions Up in Smoke (Cheech and Cloudy) vs. the Super Smash Brothers (Stupefied and Player Uno) vs. the Untouchables (Dan Paysan and Jimmy Stone)


The IWS proudly presents: Un F’N Sanctioned, Main Event is FANS BRING THE WEAPONS! Saturday, September 27th, at the beautiful, downtown Medley, 1170 St-Denis, near the Berri-UQAM Metro. Montreal, Quebec, CANADA. Doors open at 7:30 PM, show starts at 9 PM. VIP tickets are $25, Regular tickets are $20. VIP ticket holders admitted first. No reserved seating. Tickets can be purchased online at www.ticketpro.ca or in person at the Medley box office. 18+. Card and times subject to change. For more information go to www.syndicatewrestling.com or e-mail [e-mail] .

[Llakor]

Strong Style Typings
Refrain from EXesS

EXesS

The other finalist of the Extreme Dream Tournament is no one's favourite bully, grouch and sociopath, former IWS Champion and IWS Tag Team Champion: EXesS

EXesS' Extreme Dream Path:
Beat Vin Gerard
Beat "Paranoid" Jake Matthews

Let me tell you the story of EXesS.

In January 2002, the Arsenal was embroiled in a feud with Elsa Bangz who was bringing in non-IWS wrestlers to take on the One Man War.

Her January Rent-A-Wrestler was announced as Mathy69. He immediately connected with the fans with his good looks, his technical skill and his total disregard for his own safety. I remember the Arsenal giving Mathy/EXesS 69 a 2nd rope suplex from the apron to the concrete floor, landing literally at my feet in the second row.

Mathy69 became EXesS69 became EXesS. He became the IWS Tag Team Champion with the Green Phantom. He became the measuring stick for how good a wrestler you were in the IWS. He made good wrestlers better, he made great wrestlers immortal. He ushered in Kevin Steen to the IWS, had the best matches at the Medley with Steen and then El Generico. He won the Tournament of the Icons beating the IWS Champion Pierre Carl Ouellet.

Through it all, only one goal eluded him - the IWS Title.

Then to makes things worse, Sexxxy Eddy won his fourth IWS Title. Was Eddy more skilled than EXesS? NO, definitely not. Was Eddy better looking than EXesS? Doubtful. Was Eddy a bigger risk-taker than EXesS? Well, yeah, but Eddy is an idiot who does moonsaults while wearing a garbage can over his head. Was Eddy better loved by the fans? Sadly, yes.

So EXesS seethed and waited.

And the time came when EXesS had his shot at Eddy, and the time came when EXesS saw that he could take the high road and lose with honour, or take the low road and snatch the IWS Title from Eddy's hand.

And in that moment, EXesS sold his soul for gold. And holding the gold, found that having and keeping was harder than wanting and needing and chasing.

Now maybe EXesS, in time, could have regretted his decision, until the IWS fans who had already turned on EXesS added insult to injury by rallying in support of Viking, brainless brawler to the scientist EXesS; tattooed, pierced looking freak to EXesS' classical physique; beer drinker to EXesS' love of French wine; car-crash on fire dumb risk-taker to EXesS' calculated daredevil.

EXesS heard the fans losing their shit for Viking and he snapped, losing his composure, his sanity and eventually his belt, his title, his gold, the validation for his existence.

He has never been right since. EXesS has devoted his time in the ring ever since to victory, and not just to winning but to destroying his opponents, to physically humiliating them. Victory is no longer enough. Complete physical domination is necessary. EXesS no longer searches for pins, he hunts for scalps, for stretchers, for the sounds of the ambulance.

Consider EXesS' list of victims sent to the hospital:

Stefany Sinclair (broken rib),
Max Boyer (concussion),
Santino (broken nose),
Jimmy K (dislocated molar),
Shayne Hawke (fractured orbital bone)
and finally...
Sexxxy Eddy (kicked eyebrow ring off face)

Now EXesS meets one of those victims in the ring, as Shayne Hawke looks both for revenge and for gold. For EXesS, a man who has had so many great matches at the Medley, this is a chance to prove his greatness once again; a chance to win the only belt in the IWS that he has never worn; a chance to become the IWS' FIRST Triple Crown winner; but this above all - the chance to finish what he started and end Shayne Hawke's career before it ever really gets started.


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TICKET SPECIAL[/u]

While I still have VIP tickets left, they are $25 taxes in. If you order one with a DVD, the ticket and DVD are $40 + shipping. Contact me for bulk orders.

SPECIAL TICKET BONUS

I have a small number of red t-shirts that were made for Fans Bring The Weapons at Un F'N Sanctioned 2005 SIGNED by Manny, Evil Ninja and the Arsenal. (all in XL I think) I will give one of these shirts FREE to the next order that I get for $100 worth of tickets to Un F'N Sanctioned 2008. (Plus reasonable shipping charges)


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IWS Un F'N Sanctioned Card to Date:

IWS Tag Team Title Ladder Match: IWS Champions Up in Smoke (Cheech and Cloudy) vs. the Super Smash Brothers (Stupefied and Player Uno) vs. the Untouchables (Dan Paysan and Jimmy Stone)

IWS Canadian Title Extreme Dream Tournament: EXesS vs. Shayne Hawke


The IWS proudly presents: Un F’N Sanctioned, Main Event is FANS BRING THE WEAPONS! Saturday, September 27th, at the beautiful, downtown Medley, 1170 St-Denis, near the Berri-UQAM Metro. Montreal, Quebec, CANADA. Doors open at 7:30 PM, show starts at 9 PM. VIP tickets are $25, Regular tickets are $20. VIP ticket holders admitted first. No reserved seating. Tickets can be purchased online at www.ticketpro.ca or in person at the Medley box office. 18+. Card and times subject to change. For more information go to www.syndicatewrestling.com or e-mail [e-mail] .

[Llakor]

Strong Style Typings
Joey Mercury

Call him Joey Matthews or call him JOEY MERCURY, one thing is for certain, he is coming to Montreal on September 27th.

And we might well ask why Joey Mercury is coming to Montreal, coming to the IWS?

Well, I spoke to Joey Mercury this week and there are apparently three very important reasons:

1) "Montreal has the hottest, nastiest women anywhere. Montreal wasn't management's favourite place to come to, they never could predict how the crowd would react to anything, but for the wrestlers, Montreal was always a high-light."

2) "I know a few guys from the IWS and I know a little something about the IWS and Un F'N Sanctioned and I have noticed that whenever you guys invite someone to come to Un F'N Sanctioned, good things seem to happen to them. You invite Christian Cage and betwen the time that you invite him and him showing up, he becomes NWA World Champion. You invite Chris Hero and he joins ROH right after his gig with you, you invite Sabu and he starts on RAW two nights after doing your show.

Maybe this show is just good luck and hell I would like to be on RAW again pretty soon, so I am coming to Montreal and see if I can get me some of that good luck."

3) "As much as I want to get back to the show, as much as I want those big paycheques again, the one good thing about spending some time on the indy wrestling scene is that I have had some of the best matches of my life fighting in the indies. And my favourite opponent, the guy I have the best matches against comes from right there in Montreal. Funny little guy. You might know him.

They call him Mr. Wrestling. Kevin Steen.

So yeah, I enjoy kicking Kevin's ass so much I figured I might as well come to Montreal and kick his ass in front of his friends, his family, his fans."

It was right about then that I made the mistake of mentioning that while Joey Mercury may have kicked Kevin's ass in the ring in ROH, he has never actually won a match against Kevin Steen, because Mr. Wrestling always finds a way to beat Joey Mercury in the ring no matter what Joey Mercury does to him.

After which I had a nice conversation with the dialtone.

One thing is clear.

When Joey Mercury comes to Montreal, he will be in a match that involves the IWS Champion Kevin Steen in some way.

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TICKET SPECIAL[/u]

While I still have VIP tickets left, they are $25 taxes in. If you order one with a DVD, the ticket and DVD are $40 + shipping. Contact me for bulk orders.

SPECIAL TICKET BONUS

I have a small number of red t-shirts that were made for Fans Bring The Weapons at Un F'N Sanctioned 2005 SIGNED by Manny, Evil Ninja and the Arsenal. (all in XL I think) I will give one of these shirts FREE to the next order that I get for $100 worth of tickets to Un F'N Sanctioned 2008. (Plus reasonable shipping charges)


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IWS Un F'N Sanctioned Card to Date:

IWS Tag Team Title Ladder Match: IWS Champions Up in Smoke (Cheech and Cloudy) vs. the Super Smash Brothers (Stupefied and Player Uno) vs. the Untouchables (Dan Paysan and Jimmy Stone)

IWS Canadian Title Extreme Dream Tournament: EXesS vs. Shayne Hawke


The IWS proudly presents: Un F’N Sanctioned, Main Event is FANS BRING THE WEAPONS! Saturday, September 27th, at the beautiful, downtown Medley, 1170 St-Denis, near the Berri-UQAM Metro. Montreal, Quebec, CANADA. Doors open at 7:30 PM, show starts at 9 PM. VIP tickets are $25, Regular tickets are $20. VIP ticket holders admitted first. No reserved seating. Tickets can be purchased online at www.ticketpro.ca or in person at the Medley box office. 18+. Card and times subject to change. For more information go to www.syndicatewrestling.com or e-mail [e-mail] .

[Llakor]

Strong Style Typings
All Maritimes Boyz

The Maritimes Express

Sometimes, you have to be careful what you wish for. For the better part of two years, I have been lobbying IWS management on behalf of two guy from New Brunswick, from towns not far from where my Mom was born, Dalhousie, New Brunswick. I argued, I pleaded, I cheer-leaded.

"Biggest secret in Quebec Wrestling!" I roared!

And they got some scattered opportunities, but nothing that they could really sink their teeth into. Now normally, Maritimers are patient, hard-working and unassuming.

So, what the hell got into MR. SUAVE JOSH AERO and MARKO ESTRADA, they literally came out of nowhere at Le Skratch to attack 2.0 - JAGGED and SHANE MATTHEWS.

I wanted these guys to make an impact, but not this way. Not by short-cut, not by treachery.

Apparently, they are "taking their careers into their own hands" and "making an impression on the IWS and its fans" and "making a statement'".

And I suppose who better to pick to make a statement with than a team that has won tag titles on four separate occasions, twice in the IWS; who effectively retired both the Arsenal and Hardcore Ninja Number One; who have wrestled in virtually every major tag team tournament in North America; who are veterans of some of the biigest promotions in North America: ROH, PWG, CZW, CHIKARA, IWA-MS, IWS.

Who better to make a statement with than 2.0?

WHO WORSE?

Are you kidding me?

Look Jagged and Shane Matthews are funny guys, God knows, but you piss these two guys off and the sky is the limit. They will hurt you in ways that you couldn't even imagine. They have an old school wrestling background, combined with an IWS taste for ultra-violence. Funny 2.0 are dangerous, but pissed off 2.0 are lethal!

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Strong Style Typings
Who's Playing Bitch?

Beef Wellington

I have an extended rant about this to post, but for the moment allow me just to mention one small incident that illuminates the man. BEEF WELLINGTON stopped by the office on Friday to - well basically be a jerk, but while he was there I pointed out to him a message baord post on the Intra-Webs that said that Beef played such a great heel.

Beef read the post, snarled and exclaimed, "Who's Playing Bitch?!?"

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IWS Un F'N Sanctioned Card to Date:

IWS Tag Team Title Ladder Match: IWS Champions Up in Smoke (Cheech and Cloudy) vs. the Super Smash Brothers (Stupefied and Player Uno) vs. the Untouchables (Dan Paysan and Jimmy Stone)

IWS Canadian Title Extreme Dream Tournament: EXesS vs. Shayne Hawke

2.0 (Jagged and Shane Matthews) vs. The Maritimes Express "Mr. Suave" Josh Aero and Morko Estrada


The IWS proudly presents: Un F’N Sanctioned, Main Event is FANS BRING THE WEAPONS! Saturday, September 27th, at the beautiful, downtown Medley, 1170 St-Denis, near the Berri-UQAM Metro. Montreal, Quebec, CANADA. Doors open at 7:30 PM, show starts at 9 PM. VIP tickets are $25, Regular tickets are $20. VIP ticket holders admitted first. No reserved seating. Tickets can be purchased online at www.ticketpro.ca or in person at the Medley box office. 18+. Card and times subject to change. For more information go to www.syndicatewrestling.com or e-mail [e-mail] .

[Llakor]

Strong Style Typings
Fans Bring The Weapons: The Leader

I have known BEEF WELLINGTON personally and professionally since 2002.

I know that there are people out there who think that “Heel Beef” is an act, a mask, a role that Beef has chosen to play.

This is not the case.

Look, I am not going to try and hypnotize you into believing wrestling is real. That is not how I roll.

But happy Beef, jokey Beef, t-shirt selling Beef, good with children Beef? That was the mask.

Once behind the curtain, Beef is and always has been a miserable fucking bastard. An un-popped pimple on the ass of humanity.

Let’s look at the record shall we? Other than Kid Kamikaze, who made the tragic mistake of becoming Beef’s best friend at a relatively early age, has Beef ever been able to keep any kind of tag team going for any length of time? It is a running joke that in his ongoing feud with 2.0, Beef has had something like a dozen separate partners because no one in Quebec has any interest in even being around Beef for any longer than one tag match.

Look at the two exceptions, both from outside Canada: his partner in Team Masturbation, Excalibur, who is amazingly talented, but backstage – completely miserable in a hide the sharp objects kind of way. Really, outside of the ring Excalibur is hapless, helpless and hopeless. And as for Greg Excellence, Beef’s partner in 2 Girls 1 Cup? I’m not sure if he teams with Beef because the big dummy is so naïve that he mistakes Beef’s dark sarcasm for niceness, or because he is so desperate that he would tag with the Devil himself. And neither Excalibur nor Greg Excellence are forced to be around Beef for extended periods of time.

Just for the record, Beef has never liked PCP Crazy F’N Manny. He and Kid Kamikaze did initially suck up to him, until they realized that Manny needed them more than they did him and they stopped bothering to be nice to Manny.

Now Beef was always a miserable and unhappy bastard, but his stint running the IWS only made him angrier, sharper, and bitterer as though being in charge boiled off all the nice that was left.

The one other consequence of Beef being in charge of the IWS for a year is that the only man in the world that Beef hates more than Manny is Viking. Beef took Viking, a fat joke on the under-card of the IWS and made Viking a star and literally put the IWS championship belt into Viking’s hands. In the process, Beef mutilated himself putting Viking over the top by choosing Viking as his partner in Fans Bring the Weapons at Un F’N Sanctioned 2006 against PCP Crazy F’N Manny and EXesS. A match that Beef had once sworn that he would never do under any circumstances, but chose to do to advance the company and Viking’s career.

And no wonder Beef hates Viking. Once Viking was a star; once he was IWS champion did he ever once thank Beef? Did he give Beef a title shot? When he started receiving bookings all over North America did he bring Beef with him? No, no, not at all.

Worse still, when Viking found himself in a massive feud with the man who made his career, the man who made him a star, did Viking pour himself into the feud and return the favour that Beef had done him? No, Viking walked out of the IWS for six months – took his ball and went home.

And it’s not just Viking who has let Beef down and left him behind. In fact, has anyone ever reached out and brought Beef with them? No wonder he’s bitter. Hailed as the funniest man in the indys next to Colt Cabana, the man who brought Kevin Steen into the IWS, helped El Generico become a star, trained Shayne Hawke.

ROH bookings? Zero.
PWG Bookings? Zero.
IWA-MS Bookings? Zero.
Europe? Nada
Japan? Zilch.
CHIKARA? Just twice.

Looking at that list it occurs to me that perhaps the biggest indication that Beef has always been a shmuck is that other than Manny, the one promoter that has always gotten along with Beef is John Zandig. Like knows like I suppose.

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Now you might well ask, Llakor, if Beef hated the idea of Fans Bring The Weapons so much, why is he the driving force in the match this year? Why has he taunted and tormented and twisted Manny into this hellish match at the Medley?

I could tell you that it’s about revenge and you would buy it.

I could tell you that this time Beef is elevating his own career and I could sell that.

I could tell you that this time Beef has an army to back him and that would sound reasonable.

But that’s not the truth.

The truth is that At Un F’N Sanctioned 2006, Beef got the taste of blood in his nostrils. He ended the match with his own blood and the blood of others on his hands and he grew to like it; to love it; to lust for it. They say that you can train tigers and lions for circus acts and they will be as docile with their trainer as kittens if handled properly, but you must never let those big cats taste human blood; human flesh, for once they get the taste of human blood on their muzzle, that big cat will always be a killer.

So when Viking looks across the ring at Beef at the Medley (if Viking has the guts to show up at the Medley and face Beef) and Viking sees the blood in Beef’s eyes and the blood on Beef’s hands, I hope he realizes that the monster that he is looking at is one that Viking created. Maybe Beef was always a monster underneath, but Viking’s ambition brought the monster out.


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IWS Un F'N Sanctioned Card to Date:

IWS Tag Team Title Ladder Match: IWS Champions Up in Smoke (Cheech and Cloudy) vs. the Super Smash Brothers (Stupefied and Player Uno) vs. the Untouchables (Dan Paysan and Jimmy Stone)

IWS Canadian Title Extreme Dream Tournament: EXesS vs. Shayne Hawke

2.0 (Jagged and Shane Matthews) vs. The Maritimes Express "Mr. Suave" Josh Aero and Morko Estrada

Main Event Fans Bring The Weapons
Beef Wellington &


The IWS proudly presents: Un F’N Sanctioned, Main Event is FANS BRING THE WEAPONS! Saturday, September 27th, at the beautiful, downtown Medley, 1170 St-Denis, near the Berri-UQAM Metro. Montreal, Quebec, CANADA. Doors open at 7:30 PM, show starts at 9 PM. VIP tickets are $25, Regular tickets are $20. VIP ticket holders admitted first. No reserved seating. Tickets can be purchased online at www.ticketpro.ca or in person at the Medley box office. 18+. Card and times subject to change. For more information go to www.syndicatewrestling.com or e-mail [e-mail] .

[Llakor]

Strong Style Typings
Mr. Wrestling Answers Big Joe!

ANNOUNCE THE TITLE MATCH LLAKOR!

I just got off the phone with KEVIN STEEN discussing the fact that Joey Mercury is coming to Montreal. Joey appears to believe that coming to Montreal and wrestling for the IWS will act as a good luck charm for him the same way that Sabu had no sooner agreed to come to Montreal for Un F'N Sanctioned 2006 than the phone rang to tell him to get ready to come to RAW the Monday after.

While on the indy scene, Joey Mercury has had his best matches against Kevin Steen in ROH. His best matches from a critical standpoint, but also matches that he lost to Montreal's Mr. Wrestling. So joey Mercury is coming to Montreal looking for that elusive win against Kevin Steen.

On the phone Kevin told me that he has accepted Joey Mercury's challenge and that he is putting his IWS gold on the line.

"I love wrestling Joey Mercury. I feel like he has a lot to teach me in the ring. He has wrestled at the highest level of wrestling and it can only be good for me to wrestle him one on one. In fact, the only thing that I love more than wrestling Joey Mercury... is BEATING JOEY MERCURY!"


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Strong Style Typings
The Mobster and the Twig

At Hardcore Heat 2008 TWIGGY defended and lost the Tag team Belts of the "Rock & Roid Express" and Twiggy's former partner FRANKY The MOBSTER is none too happy about it.

The IWS Title Committee forced Twiggy to defend the belts which he and Franky had not defended since April, well beyond the usual delay. Since Franky was not available, Twiggy chose the best alternative, El Generico, but Up in Smoke were able to win the belts.

All of that sounds, reasonable; all of that makes sense; all of that is defensible - to a normal person; to a calm person; to a sane person.

Unfortunately for Twiggy, Franky the Mobster is neither normal, nor calm nor especially sane. And he is coming to the Medley to explain to Twiggy that losing Franky the Mobster's gold is not a mistake you make twice.

On the other hand, if Franky thinks that his ex-tag team partner is just going to roll over and play dead, he is deeply mistaken.

And on the gripping hand, well, let's just say that the IWS Air Guitar Hero really is living on a prayer at the moment.

*****

IWS Un F'N Sanctioned Card to Date:

IWS Title Match: IWS Champion Kevin Steen vs. Joey Mercury

IWS Tag Team Title Ladder Match: IWS Champions Up in Smoke (Cheech and Cloudy) vs. the Super Smash Brothers (Stupefied and Player Uno) vs. the Untouchables (Dan Paysan and Jimmy Stone)

IWS Canadian Title Extreme Dream Tournament: EXesS vs. Shayne Hawke

2.0 (Jagged and Shane Matthews) vs. The Maritimes Express "Mr. Suave" Josh Aero and Morko Estrada

Franky the Mobster vs. Twiggy

Main Event Fans Bring The Weapons
Beef Wellington & Sexxxy Eddy & the Evil Ninja vs. PCP Crazy F'N Manny & the Green Phantom & Viking (?)


The IWS proudly presents: Un F’N Sanctioned, Main Event is FANS BRING THE WEAPONS! Saturday, September 27th, at the beautiful, downtown Medley, 1170 St-Denis, near the Berri-UQAM Metro. Montreal, Quebec, CANADA. Doors open at 7:30 PM, show starts at 9 PM. VIP tickets are $25, Regular tickets are $20. VIP ticket holders admitted first. No reserved seating. Tickets can be purchased online at www.ticketpro.ca or in person at the Medley box office. 18+. Card and times subject to change. For more information go to www.syndicatewrestling.com or write to [e-mail] [/quote]

[Llakor]

ROH Tag Team Champion Comes (Back) To Montreal
Preview for IWS Un F’N Sanctioned

The International Wrestling Syndicate congratulates its champion, Kevin Steen and its Masked Mexican Mascot, El Generico, for winning the ROH Tag Team Titles in Boston on Saturday, September 20th, beating the ROH Champions - The Age of the Fall (Jimmy Jacobs and Tyler Black) to “the loudest pop I’ve heard since Homicide in Cage of Death!” This fulfills Kevin Steen’s promise to win ROH gold before the end of 2008..

The first opportunity for Montreal fans to congratulate Kevin Steen will be this Saturday as Steen defends his IWS title during Un F’N Sanctioned at the beautiful downtown Medley. His opponent will be three-time WWE tag team champion Joey Mercury.

IWS Un F’N Sanctioned
Card Quick and Dirty
Saturday, September 27th, 2008
Medley, 1170 Rue St-Denis
Montreal, Quebec, CANADA

Rock vs. Roids:
Twiggy vs. Franky the Mobster

Montreal vs. the Maritimes:
2.0 (Shane Matthews and Jagged)
vs. The Maritimes Express (Mr. Suave Josh Aero and Marko Estrada)

For the Love of a MILF:
Joey Ryan vs. “Paranoid” Jake Matthews

IWS Tag Team Title Ladder Match:
IWS Champions Up in Smoke (Cheech and Cloudy)
vs. The Super Smash Brothers (Player Uno and Stupefied)
vs. The Untouchables (Dan Paysan and Jimmy Stone)

Extreme Dream Tournament Final for the vacant IWS Canadian Title:
EXesS vs Shayne Hawke

IWS Title Mtach:
IWS Champion Kevin Steen vs. Joey Mercury

Hardcore Main Event FANS BRING THE WEAPONS
Beef Wellington, Sexxxy Eddy and the Evil Ninja
vs. PCP Crazy F’N Manny, the Green Phantom and Viking

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IWS Un F’N Sanctioned Detailed Preview

Since 2003, Un F’N Sanctioned has traditionally been the best Quebec wrestling show of the year, voted as such every year except in 2004 when there was no show by that name. It is the show where great matches happen, where great guests come to Montreal and where newcomers look to make their mark. This year, we have two special guests. First, Joey Ryan of the California promotion PWG and the tag team That 70’s Team from the WSX promotion as seen on MTV and a huge ratings success on Quebec’s Musique-Plus. Also making a Montreal visit is Joey Mercury, making a visit to the IWS before (rumour has it) he makes his return to the WWE – just like Sabu did at Un F’N Sanctioned 2006.

Looking to make a name for themselves this year at Un F’N S is The Maritimes Express. At Hardcore Heat 2008 Josh Aero and Marko Estrada attacked 2.0 while Jagged and Shane Matthews were celebrating victory over Sexxxy Eddy and the Evil Ninja. That victory should have given 2.0 a title shot at the IWS Tag Team Titles, but Jagged and Shane did not even bother to make that argument so intent are they at getting revenge on the upstart Maritimers.

We all know about sports Cinderella stories; we all know about David and Goliath, but how many underdog’s have had to worry about being shot in the head, stuffed in a trunk and buried in a New Jersey swamp? Franky the Mobster hasn’t quite got around to that threat level yet, but he is getting close. Franky is incensed that his partner in the Rock and Roids Express, Twiggy, chose to defend IWS their tag team titles last month without him, chose El Generico to replace Franky and then lost a thrilling match at Hardcore Heat 2008 to Cheech and Cloudy.

In Twiggy’s defence, he had no choice. The IWS Title Committee forced Twiggy to defend the belts, and with Franky nowhere to be found, Twiggy chose his trainer El Generico as the best replacement.

Bringing the tag division full circle, Cheech and Cloudy will be defending their titles in a Ladder Match against the former tag team champions, the Super Smash Brothers and the team that cheated to strip Player Uno and Stupefied of their belts in the match eventually won by Twiggy and Franky the Mobster. That team being the ersatz Italians, the supposedly Untouchables combination of Dan Paysan and Jimmy Stone.

At the risk of doing the unthinkable and offering Jimmy Stone a compliment, let me just say that Jimmy Stone is the only guy in this match who hasn’t demonstrated in the past a suicidal disregard for their own safety when it comes to ladders which can only be good news when it comes to the chiropractors of the five other men and the quality level of their match for the fans. It also makes Jimmy Stone my pick for the man who will be able to climb the ladder and get the belts after everyone else eliminates themselves from the match.

EXesS will be looking to be the first man to complete the IWS Triple Crown at Un F’N S. Having previously won the IWS Title and the IWS Tag Team Titles (with the Green Phantom), the IWS’ resident bully is looking to add the IWS Canadian Title to his resume. Only one man stands in his way: The suddenly red-hot Shayne Hawke who is looking for his first IWS Title belt and revenge against the man who broke his orbital bone earlier this year.

PWG and WSX veteran, Joey Ryan is coming to Montreal looking to offer one of his famous mustache rides to IWS Manager Lollypop, declaring after seeing her on an IWS DVD brought to California by Kevin Steen that she was “MILF-tastic!” There is only one obstacle to Joey Ryan’s planned Montreal erotic rendezvous: Lollypop’s husband, the IWS’ resident shovel-wielding maniac “paranoid” Jake Matthews.

Since leaving the WWE, Joey Mercury has had his best matches on the indy scene against one man: IWS Champion Kevin Steen. The two men have pushed each other to be better wrestlers and better competitors. The only problem for Joey Mercury is that he has had great matches against Steen, but he has never beat Mr. Wrestling. What better place to get that first win than in Kevin Steen’s hometown, and take some gold from Mr. Wrestling in the process?

Un F’N Sanctioned is known for one more thing than great shows, great matches and great guests. It is known for the most hellish match ever devised by the twisted mind of men, the fiendish, and violent Fans Bring The Weapons. This year, the sadistic Beef Wellington spitting in the face of his fans and his boss, PCP Crazy F’N many has done something that no participant in FBTW has ever done, planned for the match; trained for the match; assembled a team to win the match. Beef has been wrestling with Sexxxy Eddy and the Evil Ninja since July. Manny’s team of himself, the Green Phantom and Viking while three of the most successful hardcore brawlers in Quebec history, not to mention three former IWS champions, but the three have never been in the ring together as a team even once.

Many other promotions have FBTW matches. What makes the ones at the IWS stand out, besides the crazed ingenuity of our fans, is that in other promotions FBTW usually happen in the context of hardcore tournaments. In the IWS, FBTW is the ultimate grudge match, the best and final way to settle scores.

This match is no different. Beef hates Manny as the results of grudges stemming from Beef’s stint running the IWS behind the scenes and hates Viking for Viking’s lack of gratitude after Beef made Viking a star. Eddy hates Manny because Manny is the one that brought Eddy into the world of hardcore wrestling and made Eddy a star, a star that could only get cheers from the fans through self-mutilation. The Evil Ninja hates everyone equally, but hates Manny, Viking and the Green Phantom because beef pays him to hate them more and the Evil Ninja is the ultimate mercenary.

On the other side, Manny has grown to hate Beef after months of Beef’s persecution and attacks; Viking hates Beef for driving him out of the IWS last year. As for the Green Phantom, twice he has had chances to win the IWS Title stolen from him by Beef Wellington and his goons who attacked the Green Phantom convinced that he was going to come to Manny’s help. This has become a self-fulfilling prophecy on Beef’s part, because if the Green Phantom wasn’t involved before, after being attacked twice he is definitely involved now.

This many grudges, this much hatred can only be settled by the ultimate grudge matsh and in the IWS that mean that it’s time for FANS BRING THE WEAPONS and a match that can only be described as UN F’N SANCTIONED.

The IWS proudly presents: Un F’N Sanctioned, Main Event is FANS BRING THE WEAPONS! Saturday, September 27th, at the beautiful, downtown Medley, 1170 St-Denis, near the Berri-UQAM Metro. Montreal, Quebec, CANADA. Doors open at 7:30 PM, show starts at 9 PM. VIP tickets are $25, Regular tickets are $20. VIP ticket holders admitted first. No reserved seating. Tickets can be purchased online at www.ticketpro.ca or in person at the Medley box office. 18+. Card and times subject to change. For more information go to www.syndicatewrestling.com or write to [e-mail]