The mighty IWA rolled into Chillicothe Ohio last night (11-5-07), and tore down the house with Night of Champions # 7.
The IWA's Night of Champions is an annual event meant to celebrate our history as Ohio's oldest, continual, professional wrestling promotion. A birthday party, if you will. The IWA has been around since 1988.
In the opening contest WILD BULL MILLER and JERRY THE GAITER defended their Tag Team Championships against THE JUDGE and DR. DAVID LANNING. It was more than clear that despite holding the titles with Gaiter, Bull is not a Gaiter fan. Often calling on Gaiter to cheat. But the lovable Gaiter steadfastly refused. In the end Bull gave Gaiter a foreign object to use on Lanning and The Judge. However before Gaiter could put the object to use the ref seen Gaiter with it and promptly disqualified the tag champions. Thus the titles did not change hands.
In a three way Capture The Flag Match for the Cruiserweight belt, PETE NEWS was able to keep his crown when he scurried up the pole to get the flag to defeat SID ANGEL and EVAN DANIELS.
The next match was suposed to be a Number One Contenders match for the tag team titles. However, do to illness, BIG COUNTRY CHRIS HICKOCK was unable to appear and his regular tag partner, ROK WYLER, instead teamed with MATT AWESOME. The two put in a losing effort against the team of ADRENALIN - X, RELENTLESS RON MATHIS and DEVIN MAXIMUS. After the match Rok Wyler viciously attacked Awesome for losing the match for his team.
The next title contest was a Three Way Dace for the United States Championship. Champion CHAD CRUISE was able to hold off RICK RAMSEY and M. E. HOWERTON and retain his laurels after scoring a pin on Howerton.
Seeing double duty was MATT AWESOME, who squared off against DERIK FLYNT. This time Awesome's luck was a little better than in his earlyer tag match and he was able to score a pin fall victory.
The main event featured The black superman - ONYX, defending his IWA Hvwt. Title against the number one contender - CRANIAL DAMAGE CHRIS CRUIT. WWE Hall of Fammer, GREG VALENTINE was supposed to be the special enforcer ref in the contest however Valentine was not able to make his agreed upon appearance. This led to UFC fighter and current Ultimate Fighter TV star, WES SIMS, agreed to officiate the match. At one point the match still got out of hand when Cruit's RIOT SQUAD partner, BULL MILLER, interfered, breaking up a Onyx pin attempt. As ref Sims was trying to get Miller out of the ring Cruit hit Sims from behind with a steele chair. Unfortunately by the time Sims was able to get his composure Onyx had gotten the chair away from Cruit and Sims thought Onyx had clobbered him. As Onyx and Sims argued Cruit was able to get Onyx from behind and scored the pin on Onyx after an extremely fast Wes Sims three count. Cruit thought he had won the title when head referee BUD HATTERY hit the ring, overruled Sims fast count and restarted the match. Ultimately Onyx was able to score a pin fall and retain his title in this highly controversial match.
The IWA would like to thank all our Superstars, all those who work so hard behind the scenes, as well as all our fans for supporting us. Night of Champions # 7 was truly a great event.
The mighty IWA will return to Chillicothe Ohio's Backstage on December 3rd with Seasons Beatings. Stay tuned for more information.