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 6/3/17

Promotion: F1RST Wrestling
Time/Date: 8 p.m. Saturday June 3, 2017
City, State: Minneapolis, MN
Venue: First Avenue

Wrestlepalooza X
Not only was this the tenth Wrestlepalooza but it was also the 10th anniversary show for F1RST Wrestling.

Wrestlepalooza champion Arik Cannon defeated Airwolf to retain the title.

After the match Molly Holly and Shawn Daivari came to the ring. They presented Airwolf as the first graduate from The Academy School of Professional Wrestling.

The next match was for the DDT Pro Ironman Heavymetalwieght championship. Champion Joey Ryan faced off against Grado.

Grado rolled up Joey Ryan for the 3 count to win the DDT Pro Ironman heavymetalweight title.

Queenie Von Curves pinned Grado to become the new DDT Pro Ironman Heavymetalweight champion.

Joey Ryan won the belt for the 46th time when he pinned Queenie Von Curves.

Rapper Prof got in the ring to drop some rhymes.

Venom won a 3 way match against Jake Parnell and Scott Story.

Burlesque from Scarlette Revolver was next.

Chuck Taylor defeated Mat Fitchett.

Super Thunder Frog, Wildcat & Ryan Cruz defeated Whirlwind Gentlemen (Remy Marcel & Jake Manley) & Darin Corbin in a 6 man tag match.


Cruz and the animals got some help from Prof. Darin Corbin was powerbombed then chocked slammed by Prof.

Burlesque from former DDT Pro Ironman Heavymetalweight champion Queenie Von Curves in a Xena inspired outfit.

Joey Ryan and Chuck Taylor came out to the ring and called out Wrestlepalooza champion Arik Cannon. Other wrestlers such as Venom, Ryan Cruz, Super Thunder Frog, Wildcat and referee Rob Page came to the ring as well. They all came to the ring to congratulate Cannon on 10 years of F1RST Wrestling. A video was played featuring Jerry Lynn, Ariya Daivari and Scott Hall talking about F1RST Wrestling.

In the main event Drago pinned Fire Ant.

F1RST wrestling Minneapolis, MN 1/15/17

Promotion: F1RST Wrestling
Time/Date: 8pm Sunday January 15, 2017
City, State: Minneapolis, MN
Venue: First Ave

Wrestlepalooza IX

"All Ego" Ethan Page defeated Space Monkey, Air Wolf and Venom in a 4 way match.

Fest champion Su Young defeated Veda Scott to retain the title.

Burlesque from Scarlette Revolver with hula hoops.

Chuck Taylor beat Kikutaro, Colt Cabana and Joey Ryan in a 4 way match.

Burlesque from Queenie Von Curves.

Dillinger Four was the musical guest.

F1RST Wrestling Wrestlepalooza tag team champions Northstar Express (Darin Corbin & Ryan Cruz) defeated Super Thunder Frog & Wildcat to retain the titles.After the match Corbin hit Cruz with one of the belts to end this long time tag team.

Cody Rice pinned Rob James.

Burlesque from Sweetpea.

Arik Cannon pinned Wrestlepalooza champion Ariya Daivari.

New F!RST Wrestling Wrestlepalooza champion Arik Cannon.

This was Ariya Daivari's last independent wrestling event before he started wrestling full time with WWE. Daivari had his very first match at First Ave so it was great to see him have his last independent match in this building.