RED, WHITE & BRUISED, JULY 22

[JOHNNY LOVE]

"RED, WHITE & BRUISED" 2006 WAS UNENVIABLE THE IWA FLASHFIRE'S BIGGEST SHOW SINCE "FIGHTMARE IV".... THERE WERE TEN GREAT MATCHES, LOTS OF NEW FACES AND WE HAD THREE NEW CHAMPIONS CROWNED. IF YOU WEREN'T IN ELBERTON, GEORGIA ON JULY 22ND, WELL YOU SHOULD JUST PLAIN KICK YOURSELF IN THE TAIL.

THE FIRST MATCH OF THE NIGHT WE SAW"MONSTER" MARK MAYHEM, KELL WILLIAMS AND "MR GRIMM" RONNIE RAGE COMPETING IN A THREE WAY MATCH. THE ACTION WAS STIFF AND WELL PACED AND IN THE END, RAGE INCAPACITATED MAYHEM AND SCORED A PIN FALL OVER WILLIAMS...

BULLDOG, PAPSTER DECIDED IT WAS TIME TO CRASH THE PARTY AND CONFRONT WAR MACHINE, TANK.... THESE TWO HATE EACH OTHER AND HAVE VOWED TO END THE WORD CALLING ON THE COMPUTER.... TANK CAME TO THE RING IN ANSWER TO THE CHALLENGE.... IT DIDN'T TAKE LONG FOR TANK TO SLAP THE TASTE OUT OF BULLDOG'S MOUTH. THIS BROUGHT BULLDOG'S BIKER TAG-TEAM, THE BIKER'S OF APOCALYPSE TO THE RING AND INTO THE MIX.... THEY ASSAULTED TANK UNTIL SGT. GRIMM, NICK HALL RAN IN WITH A KEN-DO STICK AND CLEARED THE RING. TANK THEN OFFERED THE B.O.A. A MATCH WITH TWO OF THEIR FRIENDS THAT VERY NIGHT. B.O.A. ACCEPTED THE MATCH....

ANOTHER THREE WAY BATTLE WAS UP NEXT.... BLUE DRAGON, DARKNESS AND KAMWUI..... THE MASKED DRAGON, THE PHENOM DARKNESS AND THE HALF ASIAN, SENSATION KAMWUI REALLY PUT ON A BATTLE, SETTING A BREAKNECK TEMPO FILLED WITH MANY HIGH SPOTS AND SEVERAL NEAR FALLS.... THEN TO EVERYONE'S SURPRISE, XION THE HERETIC, CAME OUT AND ENTERED THE RING. HE CALLED TO DRAGON AND DARKNESS AND THE THREE BEGAN BEATING KAMWUI TO THE MAT.... THE MATCH WAS THROWN OUT AND XION, DRAGON AND DARKNESS EXITED THE RING TOGETHER....

GM WONDERFUL WAYNE ENTERED THE RING TO MAKE AN ANNOUNCEMENT.... HE CALLED OUT EL DRACO WITH EL GATO, THE MERCENARY, DALE DWINDLE AND SCOTTY DAVIS TO THE RING. HE THEN SAID THAT FOR SOME REASON NITRO, THE WAR MACHINE WHO WAS THE INTERNET CHAMPION WAS SCHEDULED TO DEFEND IT BUT HAD NOT SHOWN UP..... SO THE TITLE WAS VACANT. THE FOUR MEN WERE TO BATTLE TO ELIMINATE EACH OTHER UNTIL THERE WOULD BE A WINNER AND THAT WOULD BE THE NEW INTERNET CHAMPION.... THE MATCH GOT UNDERWAY IMMEDIATELY. IT WASN'T LONG FOR THE MERCENARY TO PIN EL DRACO AND DALE DWINDLE PINNED SCOTTY DAVIS.... SUDDENLY IT WAS A TWO MAN MATCH FOR THE TITLE.... A QUICK THINKING DALE DWINDLE CAUGHT THE MERCENARY FROM BEHIND AND HE PINNED HIM FOR THE STRAP WITH EXTRA LEVERAGE FROM THE ROPES...... WINNER AND NEW INTERNET CHAMPION, DOUBLE D, DALE DWINDLE.....

"CPL. PUNISHMENT" CHRIS DAMION COMES IN THE RING NEXT AND ISSUED A CHALLENGE TO ANTONE IN THE BACK THAT THOUGHT THEY COULD TAKE HIM. HE WANTED THE BEST TO WRESTLE HIM.... WELL, WHAT FOR, NONE OTHER THAN FORMER CHAMPION, TRIPLE CROWN CHAMPION, "MERCILESS" DON MATTHEWS WHO CAME TO THE RING.... THE TWO PUT ON AN AMAZING MATCH, WITH LOTS OF HOLDS AND COUNTER HOLDS. MATTHEWS DISPLAYED A SURPRISING AMOUNT OF SPEED AT TIMES WHILE DAMION SHOCKED THE CROWD WITH SEVERAL FEATS OF STRENGTH. A YAKUZA KICK AND A BOMBSHELL WOULD FINALLY SPELL DEFEAT FOR CHRIS AND THEN THE TWO SHOOK HANDS SHOWING HARD EARNED RESPECT FOR EACH OTHER....

THE NEXT MATCH WOULD BE ADAM OWENS VERSUS JOSH MAGNUM. OWENS USED HIS SIZE ADVANTAGE TO CONTROL THE MATCH IN THE EARLY GOING, BUT THE ARROGANT MAGNUM USED EVERY UNDERHANDED TACTIC IN THE BOOK TO JET AHEAD. MAGNUM LAID OUT OWENS WITH A MUSCLE BUSTER AND THEN FINISHED HIM OFF WITH A 450 SPLASH FROM THE TOP CORNER POST TO GAIN THE VICTORY....

AFTER INTERMISSION IT WAS TIME FOR THE FIRST MAIN EVENT.... THIS MATCH WOULD BE A HARD CORE DEFENSE OF THE U.S. TITLE. THE CHAMPION, XION THE HERETIC, CAME OUT TO MEET THE FORMER CHAMPION, SGT. GRIMM, NICK HALL.... THE ACTION WAS ABSOLUTELY OUT OF CONTROL AS THEY BATTLED ALL OVER THE ARMORY. LADDERS WERE BROUGHT INTO PLAY. THEN THEY TOOK TURNS WHIPPING EACH OTHER WITH A LEATHER STRAP.... THEN THEY BEAT EACH OTHER INTO NEAR UNCONSCIOUSNESS BY RAMMING EACH OTHER INTO A WALL. XION BROUGHT HALL INTO THE RING AND REFEREE, CLIFF WILLIAMS, COLLIDED WITH HALL AND XION, BUT HALL COUNTERED AND CONNECTED HIS MOVE, THE S.A.M., WITH NO REFEREE TO COUNT. HALL HAD ALSO BEEN THROUGH THE ANNOUNCERS' TABLE. WHEN HALL SAW NOBODY TO COUNT, HIS BEING A HEAD REFEREE HIMSELF, HE WENT AHEAD AND MADE THE COUNT HIMSELF.... XION JUMPED UP IN PROTEST BUT GM, WONDERFUL WAYNE, SPOKE UP AND SAID THE COUNT WAS LEGAL AND WOULD COUNT. QUICKLY THE "UNHOLY ALLIANCE" OF BLUE DRAGON AND DARKNESS JOINED XION IN STOMPING NICK HALL IN THE MAT..... WAR MACHINE TANK WAS QUICK TO RUN THEM OFF. TANK TOOK THE MIC AND ANNOUNCED THE NEW MEMBER IN THE NEW DEATH-COM FOUR, JOINING THE WAR MACHINES AND NICK HALL WOULD BE "MERCILESS", DON MATTHEWS.... BOY, THIS LOOKED LIKE MORE TROUBLE BREWING IN THE ARENA.....

THE NEXT MAIN EVENT FEATURED THE REDNECKS, BILLY STARR AND PANHEAD TAGGING VS. TEXAS SUPERSTAR, JOHNNY DOLLAR AND BUBBA HOGG JR..... ONLY HOGG HAD NOT ARRIVED IN ELBERTON.... DOLLAR SAID HE WOULD FIND A PARTNER AND HE HEADED FOR THE BACK. MUCH TO EVERYONE'S SURPRISE HE CAME RUNNING OUT WITH THE MERCENARY.... THE MATCH GOT UNDERWAY AS THE REDNECKS POUNCED ON THE COWBOY AND SOLDIER.... THE MERCENARY WOULD NOT DO ANY CHEATING AND HIM AND DOLLAR JUST COULDN'T AGREE ON ANYTHING.... THE REDNECKS TOOK ADVANTAGE OF THE SITUATION AND THEY SOON RACKED UP ANOTHER VICTORY.....

NOW IT WAS TIME FOR BULLDOG AND HIS BIKERS OF APOCALYPSE TO GO AGAINST TANK'S BUDDIES, JAMES T. HUNTER AND MILLER ROACH.... THE B.O.A. WAS ABSOLUTELY DOMINANT IN THE MATCH AND THEY GOT ALL OVER HUNTER AND ROACH.... THEY TOOK THE MATCH HOME WITH THE VICTORY AS WELL..... TANK HAS VOWED IT WON'T BE EASY THE NEXT TIME FOR THE BIKERS....

IT WAS TIME NOW FOR THE SEMI-MAIN..... THIS WOULD BE A TABLE MATCH.... THE FIRST ONE THROUGH THE TABLE WOULD BE THE WINNER OF THE MATCH.... CRAZII SHEA HAD COME DOWN FROM BALTIMORE, MD. FOR THIS SPECIAL MATCH VERSUS HIS NEMESIS FROM WEST VIRGINIA, STEFON SLAYTER. THEY CLIMBED IN THE SQUARED CIRCLE AND SHOWED OUT AS BOTH MEN WERE WIDE OPEN ALL THE WAY. SLAYTER ATTEMPTED TO PUT SHEA THROUGH THE TABLE SEVERAL TIMES.... HOWEVER,SHEA WOULD COME THROUGH IN THE END BY PUTTING SLAYTER THROUGH THE TABLE WITH A REVERSE CANADIAN DESTROYER FROM THE TOP TURNBUCKLE.... YES, YOU READ IT RIGHT.... IT WAS A MOMENT THAT COULD ONLY BE APPRECIATED FULLY BY SEEING IT IN PERSON..... NO LIE!

THEN IT WAS TIME FOR THE MAIN EVENT OF THE NIGHT.... HOW COULD A GUY THAT WAYS ABOUT 450 HAVE A MAIN EVENT MATCH WITH A FEATHERWEIGHT THE "MYTH", TOMMY SAWYER. IT WAS SPEED AGAINST OVERPOWER..... BUT TOMMY WAS NOT TO BE TAKEN LIGHTLY...... NO PUN INTENDED..... TOMMY HAD BEATEN BIG MERCILESS DON MATTHEWS TO BECOME THE HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPION AND HAD FOUND A WAY TO DEFEAT MANY BIGGER MEN IN DEFENSE OF THE STRAP..... THE BATTLE WENT WELL WITH NEITHER MAN GETTING THE ADVANTAGE..... TOMMY USED HIS FLYING KICKS AND SPEED TO KEEP HIM IN THE BATTLE..... IT WAS OBVIOUS IT WOULD TAKE A MISTAKE FROM ONE FOR THE OTHER TO GET OVER.... SOMEONE DID... TANK ROLLED OUT OF THE RING TO THE FLOOR.... TOMMY SAWYER ATTEMPTED A SUICIDE DIVE OVER THE TOP ROPE.... BUT HIS KNEE PADS SNAGGED THE ROPE AND HE CRASHED VIOLENTLY TO THE CONCRETE FLOOR.... MOMENTS LATER, TANK ROLLED HIM BACK IN THE RING AND HE CONNECTED WITH A BT SLAM IN THE MIDDLE OF THE RING.... HE WOULD BECOME THE NEW IWA FLASH FIRE HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPION......

IF YOU MISSED THIS ACTION, YOU MISSED A GREAT ONE ALL NIGHT LONG..... THREE HOURS OF SUPERSTAR ACTION FROM BEGINNING TO END.....