IPW Waterloo, IA 7/20/17

Promotion: Impact Pro Wrestling
Time/Date: 12 p.m. Friday July 20, 2017
City, State: Waterloo, Iowa
Venue: Five Sullivan Brothers Event Center

Dan Gable International Wrestling Museum Hall of Fame Event.

This year there was an afternoon show and an evening show. Every year at this HOF event there are evaluation matches that are watched by Gerald Brisco, JJ Dillon and Jim Ross. The wrestlers then get feed back after all the matches. For the first time these evaluation matches were open to the public as an afternoon show. The matches were scheduled to start at noon. I got to the venue a little after noon and had missed the first few matches as they had to start early.

Stephen Wolf (@StephenWolf309) defeated Bucky Collins.

Logan Lynch (@theloganlynch) pinned Air Wolf (@officialairwolf).

Also new this year to the IPW HOF show was the Hall of Fame Classic tournament. This was an 8 man tournament with the 4 first round matches taking place during the afternoon show. In the first tournament match Curt Stallion (@CurtStallion) defeated Myron Reed (@TheBadReed).

ACH beat Penta El Om (@PENTAELZEROM)in a first round match.

Chuck Taylor (@SexyChuckieT) defeated AJ Smooth (@AJSmoothGJP) in a first round match.

Shane Strickland (@StricklandShane) beat Shelton Benjamin (@Sheltyb803) by count out in the last first round match. This was the main event of the afternoon show.

Chuck Taylor pinned Curt Stallion to advance to the finals of the Hall of Fame Classic.

Shane Strickland defeated ACH to advance to the finals.

Next up was the 8th annual Lou Thesz Cup battle royal. This match featured many of the wrestlers from the evaluation matches.

Tyler Jones won the Lou Thesz Cup battle royal.

James Jeffries (@TheRealJDouble)defeated Tony Sly.

This was Tony Sly's last match.

IPW womans champion Miss Frankie Jay defeated Sierra Avery, Brooke Valintine and Kiandra in a 4 way match to retain the title.

The IPW tag team champions Matty Star & Sparrow won a 4 team match to retain the titles.

After intermission WWE superstar Chad Gable came to the ring and brought out Dan Gable.

IPW champion Ryan Slade defeated Nicky Free to retain the title.

Chuck Taylor pinned Shane Strickland to win the Hall of Fame Classic. At the time of this match Strickland was a champion in 3 promotions (CZW, WrestleCircus and Defy) and Taylor was the PWG champion. Their titles were not on the line during this tournament.

Ray Feuring defeated Malice.

Myron Reed, B. Brian Blair (@Killerbee1B) & Wes Brisco defeated AJ Smooth, Justin Decent & Aaron Von Barron.


Tickets are on sale now for next years event July 26-28, 2018. This is a great event for pro wrestling fans. Legends and current stars at this years event included Baron Von Raschke, Stan Hansen, Magnum T.A., Paul Orndorff, Jim Brunzell, Jason Jordan and Sabu.

F1RST Wrestling Des Moines, IA 6/17/16

Promotion: F1RST Wrestling
Time/Date: 7pm Friday June 17, 2016
City, State: Des Moines, Iowa
Venue: Woolys

Wrestlepalooza


The event started out with some stand up comedy from Marty DeRosa.

Matt "M-Dogg 20" Cross defeated Ethan Page in the first match.

Pheonix L'Amour got crazy with some whip cream.

3XW champion Nate Redwing retained the title against Ryan Slade, Venom and Scott Story.

The Copyrights rocked out.

F1RST Wrestling Wrestlepalooza champion Ariya Daivari pinned Arik Cannon to retain the title.

Next up was a man VS animal tag team match. Cody Rice, Zicky Dice & Chainsaw King VS Super Thunder Frog, Space Monkey & Wildcat.

The animals defeated the men.

Burlesque from Hester Mofet was next.

The F1RST Wrestling Wrestlepalooza tag team champions The Northstar Express (Ryan Cruz & Darin Corbin) defeated The Viking War Party (Jake Parnell & Alexandre Rudolph)to retain the title.

The main event was a 3 way match for the DDT Pro Ironman Heavymetalweight title. Champion Joey Ryan defended against Chuck Taylor and Colt Cabana.

Taylor pinned Ryan to win the title.

Scott Hall, who was a special guest at the event, got in the ring and pinned Chuck Taylor to win the DDT Pro Ironman Heavymetalweight title.

Scott Hall only held the belt for a short time as he lost it to Colt Cabana that night in the locker room.

IPW/HoF Waterloo, IA 7/10/15

Promotion: Impact Pro Wrestling
Time/Date: 7pm Friday July 10, 2015
City, State: Waterloo, Iowa
Venue: Five Sullivan Brothers Event Center

 This was the annual IPW George Tragos/Lou Thesz Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame event. The 2015 class included (painted below top left to right, bottom left to right) Greg Wojciechowski and Jim Landos, Beth Phoenix (Frank Gotch award), B. Brian Blair (Lou Thesz award), Matt Lindland (George Tragos award) and Wade Keller (Jim Melby award).

 At 4 pm in the Dan Gable International Wrestling Museum Kurt Angle was presented with two rings in honor of his amateur wrestling championships. Angle was inducted into the Tragos/Thesz hall of fame a few years ago but was unable to show up in Waterloo. While at the museum Angle added his signature to the "Mat of Honor".

The first match of the night was the annual Lou Thesz Cup Memorial Battle Royal.

 Sparrow and James Jefferies were the last two men in the battle royal. With a little help from his partner, Sparrow was able to toss Jefferies over the top rope to get the victory.

Ryan Slade pinned Bobby Fonta.

 Latin Thunder & U Gene defeated Nate Redwing & Jake Dirden.

 Colt "Boom Boom" Cabana pinned Bob Holly.

IPW Vault champion Marshall Scott pinned Nicky Free to retain the title.

 B Brian Blair, Ugly & James Jefferies defeated Matty Starr, Sparrow & Aaron Von Baron in a 6 man tag match. Blair pinned Starr for the 3 count.

 Wes Brisco defeated AJ Smooth by tap out in a legends lumberjack Match.

 At the end of the match Wes Brisco celebrated in the ring with JJ Dillon, Jerry Brisco and Baron Von Raschke.

I've said it before and I'll say it again. If you are a pro wrestling fan in the Midwest you should make your way to Waterloo to check out the museum. The best time to do that is during the Hall of Fame weekend. Check out the museum's web site for info on next years event. http://nwhof.org/waterloo/