Dragon Gate USA Chicago, IL 9/6/2009

On Sunday September 6th Dragon Gate USA presented "Open the Untouchable Gate" at the Congress theatre in Chicago, IL. This was their second event and it was taped for PPV that will be available in November.
The fans in the first few rows were treated to a special match called 'The Fray'. The Fray started with two wrestlers then another one entered the Fray after a set amount of time. Wrestlers were eliminated by pin fall or submission. The 8 wrestlers in the Fray were Johnny Gargano, Hallowicked, Louis London, Shiima Xion, Arik Cannon, Mustafa Ali, Great Malaki and Flip Kendrick. Grangano won the match when he pinned Hallowicked.
Dragon Kid defeated Masato Yoshino.Mike Quackenbush & Jigsaw defeated Gran Akuma & Yamato.

Dragon Gate Open the Dream Gate champion Naruki Doi retained his title when he beat "American Dragon" Bryan Danielson. For the fist time I actually saw an announcer say "And now for a man who needs no introduction..." and then no introduction was give. Danielson just walk out of the entrance with no music.

Cima defeated Brian Kindrick.

Davey Richards defeated Shingo by submission.

Open the Twin Gates champions Genki Horiguchi & Ryo Saito defeated the Young Bucks (Nick and Matt Jackson)to retain the belts.

IWA MS TPI Midlothain, IL 9/30/2006

The second night of the IWA MS Ted Petty Invitational was a long night of wrestling as not only were there 10 tournament matches but there were 5 other matches as well. Not only were the fans treated to so much great wrestling but they got a few surprises as well as some wrestlers made their return to IWA MS.
El Genarico beat M-Dogg 20 to move on to the next round.
Claudio Castignoli beat Mike Quackenbush in one of the best matches of the night.
Low Ki beat Davey Richards in a very hard hitting match.
Chris Hero made Trik Davis submit.
Arik Cannon pinned Hallowicked.
Roderick Strong beat Delirious by tap out.
Eddie Kingston & Joker & Ricocet beat the Thomaselis.
The Northstar Express won some weird ruled match with 5 tag teams of wrestlers who lost in the first round the night before. In the photo here Rickey Reyes is pointing out to the fans that Ryan Cruz looks like Matt Hardy.
Arik Cannon beat Claudio Castignoli.
Roderick Strong beat Chris Hero with a back slide.
Low Ki beat El Generico.
Chuck Taylor beat Toby Klien to become the new IWA MS heavyweight champion.
In the TPI finals Low Ki beat Roderick Stong and Arik Cannon. First Low Ki pinned Strong then he knocked out Cannon for the win.

IWA MS TPI Midlothian, IL 9/29/2006

The annual IWA MidSouth Ted Petty Invitational took place this year in Midlothain, IL with the first round matches taking place on Sept 29th, 2006. This is the seventh year of IWA MS's annual tournament that use to be called the 'Sweet Science 16' but has since been expanded to 24 of some of the best wrestlers on the indy wrestling scene.
The first match of the first round was M-Dogg 20 vs IWA MS rookie Ricochet. The more experianced M-Dogg got the pin after a shoting star press.
To advance to the next round 'Lightning' Mike Quackenbush beat 'Classic' Colt Cabana. Quackenbush won with a Michinoku Driver.
Chris Hero, the 2000 Sweet Science Sixteen winner, beat Ricky Reyes to move on in the tournament.
The man from Sleepyhollow, Hallowicked, beat the man with the best abs in wrestling, Scorpio Sky.
Trik Davis beat Eric Stevens with a roll up to advance in the TPI. After the match Davis was attacked by Chris Hero.
The generic luchador El Generico beat 'Photogenic' Chris Bosh. Generico won the match with a top rope brain buster.
Davey Richards beat Jigsaw to move on to the next round.
Roderick Strong beat 'Mr. Impact' Brandon Thomaselli with a powerbomb.
Swiss wrestler Claudio Castagnoli defeated Canadian Kevin Steen. Last year Steen made it to the final round but lost to Matt Sydal who was unable to be in this years TPI because he was in Japan wrestling for Dragon Gate.
TNA X division champion Low Ki(Senshi in TNA) beat Gran Akuma after the double stomp.
Delirious beat Scott Lost.
Arik Cannon won the main event of the night against B-Boy. Cannon was the thrid man in the final match in last years TPI.