iWL: Tag Team Tournament: Semi-Finals and Finals

Sunday August 23rd

The Semi-Finals

Day two of our massive Tag Team Tournament event, and thankfully it was a bit cooler. The fans of course were still hot, but this time, not due to the weather.

Over the course of the weekend they had witness some of the best wrestling seen in years. All hopes were on tonight being just as grand.

The Semi-Final Bracket:

Semi-Finals Results:

The Headbashers and Idols d. The Beverly Hills Cruisers

The Truth d. D-Xtreme

That is it folks. We have our Main Event Finale.

iWL's very own The Headbashers and Idols VS the masked team of The Truth

Participants in mind, it was time to find out what the Main Event match type would be. We polled our fans and 57% requested a TLC match.
Tables, Ladders, and Chairs. Oh yeah!

This is it folks. Who would walk out as the new iWL Tag Team Champions? It was time to find out.

Both teams showcased tremendous talent in and out of the ring. Truly I have never been one for spotfest matches but even I cried out Holy Shit more than once during the course of the event.

One such highspot saw us witness the larger member of The Truth catapult Rex from THI over the ropes and OVER two stacked tables, landing his backside on the laid out ladder below. While at the same time his partner had Barbra in a halfnelson climbing the ladder inside the ring, they jumped off and DDT'd Barbra though both tables. Tremendous!

Another spot saw Barbra counter out of a sleeper hold for a jaw breaker, which Rex capitalized with a ladder pivot.

The two teams even went up to our iWL tron and fought around it. Sadly the tron got a ladder tossed into the lower portion, ruining the video feed to the fans in attendance.

The larger member of The Truth tossed his partner off the turnbuckle for a bodysplash on Rex straight through a table.

Once back in the ring The Truth set up two ladders side by side and scaled them to the top. They simply sat at the top of the ladders, fingertips away from the hanging belts, while Rex and Barbra were laid out outside the ring, helpless.

Folks, it was like they were tempting us. For, who knows what.

Slowly and efficiently, they reached up and unhooked the belts, while standing side by side on the two ladders, their masks hiding any emotion on their face.

Would you expect them to be cheered or booed? I was not sure either until the two dropped down from the ladders and set them up outside the ring, using the ring apron and announcer table as vertical posts.

What we all saw next, amazed even my old heart. They rested Rex and Barbra across the two ladders, head and legs dangling off the ends, then scooted the ladders so the bodies weren't hanging but no support was present for the stomach area.

The Truth then did the unthinkable.
Looking back, Holyhell we should not have allowed them to participate.

The shorter one leaps off the ropes with a frogsplash across the exposed skin. And then proceeded to hold down the headbangers as his partner stood on the apron, arms spread out.

He leaned forward.

And fell.

It was like an avalanche crushing everything in its' path. Even the ladders gave-way to the weight.

Even watching, I was not sure I saw what we just saw. The end result however was our iWL Tag Team Champions were The Truth. Whomever they may be beneath those masks, they were surely happy.

The deafening boo's that filled the arena as they made their leave up the ramp, told the whole story.

This night.
We
Lost.

iWL: Tag Team Tournament: Round 1 and 2

First Round Results:

Bracket A

The Beverly Hills Cruisers d. The Go's

The Outsiders d. Team America

Bracket B:

The Headbashers and Idols d. Eagle and Hawk

Alien Warfare d. Legendary

Bracket C:

Rob and Sam Chronic d. Simply Fantastic

D-Xtreme d. The High Flyers

Bracket D:

The Truth d. The Bell Towers

Annihilation d. Dream Scape

Second Round Results:

Bracket A:

The Beverly Hills Cruisers d. The Outsiders

Bracket B:

The Headbashers and Idols d. Alien Warfare

Bracket C:

D-Xtreme d. Rob and Sam Chronic

Bracket D:

The Truth d. Annihilation

iWL: Tag Team Tournament Update

From the desk of Steven Proud, co-owner of the Idaho Wrestling League.

Evening all. The time is drawing close to the tournament. So far we have Eleven teams signed up and draw near the goal. Joining the previously mentioned teams are:

The Go's

Eagle and Hawk

The Truth

Simply Fantastic

and The Outsiders

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