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I couldn't tell you, but Sombra in CMLL was fucking great. Check out his mask matches at the Anniversary Shows for some of the best stuff ever. You might want to try thecubsfan on youtube. Everything is posted there as separate matches going back years, instead of full shows. It might be easier to navigate.

IWC First Strike January 19, 2019 in Long Beach, CA Long Beach Arena Shown live on The Lucha Libre Network and Youtube. A video package airs going through the history of lucha libre and then shows highlights of IWC talent showing the future of lucha libre. As the video package ends we focus on JoJo in the ring, the host of the International Wrestling Council. She welcomes everybody to the future of lucha libre! It all begins with this "First Strike". We then get introductions for our opening contest, which features the young guns of IWC. 1. Atómicos Show Case Match [Técnicos] Volador Jr. y Mayu Iwtani y DemonXBunny (Allie y Rosemary) vs [Rudos] ACH y Princess KimberLee y Jordynne Grace y Templario We are joined by our announce team of "Lightning" Mike Quackenbush and Leonard F. Chikarson to call the action tonight. Quackenbush explains the rules of IWC, which differ from traditional lucha libre. First what stays is the lucha tag format, i.e. a wrestler can make a tag by leaving the ring. What differs is that the matches will be one single fall and there will be no "Captains" rule. Tonight's matches are not only important, because it's the debut show for IWC, but there is title implications. On the first episode of "Festival de Lucha" on January 23rd the inaugural IWC Lightning Champion will be crowned. The Lightning Title will be defended each week on television in a match with a ten minute time limit. The challenger will be drawn at random from anybody who has won their last match (within the last 30 days) who declares they want the challenge. For the first champion, two of the people who have won tonight will be drawn at random for that chance. On top of that the 32-person IWC Title Tournament will begin on the 23rd as well. Most of these competetors are in the tournament and are looking to gain momentum. This contest is a spotfest to showcase some younger talent to the world. Volador Jr., ACH, & Templario dazzle with their high flying. Mayu Iwatani is the charmaing underdog babyface who puts up a good fight. Jordynne Grace shows off her power moves. Princess Kimber Lee is acrobatic but vicious. Allie is the charming Bunny and has her odd dynamic with the Demon Rosemary. Volador Jr. hits an impressive top rope Frankensteiner on Templario for the victory. Winners: Volador Jr. y Mayu Iwtani y DemonXBunny @ 9:02. We head backstage where "Journalist" UltraMantis Black is Los Ingobernables (Rush, CIMA, & Mia Yim). Black qustions Rush on his new team, since he lost all of his former Ingobernables and questions if it's smart to have talent from Mexio, the USA, and Japan on one unit. Rush answers in Spanish (which are subtitled) saying this is the best unit he has ever had behind him. Mia Yim says that LA Park has been a thorne in Rush's side for too long and it ends tonight! Back to JoJo to introduce us to our next match. 2. Trios Action [Técnicos] The Colony (Silver Ant y Fire Ant y Green Ant) vs [Rudos] Nueve Generacion Dinamitas (Sansón y El Cuatrero y Forastero) Quackenbush is very excited for this match, as it is luchadors in their element in trios action! Chikarson asks him if he can be unbiased, since he trained The Colony? Quackenbush says he will do his best. The Colony is a team of ants, which Nueve Generacion Dinamitas are the sons and nephews of one of the most famous luchador of all-time in Cien Caras and his famous team. All competitors are great all around athletes and this was an excellent match with the rudos cheating to gain advantage and get the eventual win when Sansón hit the Poder Dinamita (a torture rack power bomb) for the win on the youngest member of The Colony Green Ant. Winners: Nueve Generacion Dinamitas @ 10:04 We are thrown to the back where UltraMantis Black has a report for us. There is some kind of disturbance outside the arena, some kind of protest. UltraMantis will get to the bottom of this and report back. JoJo invites us back to the action for a battle between some amazing high flyers and a team that claims to be the masters of the mat Los Maestros. 3. Air vs Ground: [Técnicos] Stuka Jr. y Soberano Jr. y Flamita vs [Rudos] Los Maestros (Deonna Purazzo y Rey Hechicero y Virus) Los Maestros ground the high flying trio for the majority of the contest wtih matwork and submissions. Late in the contest Stuka Jr. slid out of the ring off an irish whip and Soberano hit a springboard dropkick on Virus out of nowhere to finally get the high flyers into their element. We get a trio of dives by the high flyers, but once we got back in the ring Hechicero hits El Conjuro (spinning hammerlock into backbreaker) on Flamita for the win. Winners: Los Maestros @ 13:38. We head to old school Royal Rumble style short promos by each competitor in the Inernational Incident Elimination Match. Each wants to win the match to show their country is the best. 4. International Incident Elimination Match: [Técnico] Mike Bailey (Canada) vs [Técnico] Toni Storm (New Zealnd) vs [Técnico] Kairi Hojo (Japan) vs [Rudo] Mercedes Martinez (USA) vs [Técnico] Dragon Lee (Mexico) This contest starts with two people in the ring and changes with tags (whether traditonal or lucha). People are elimination by pinfall, submission, and DQ. The match is up tempo with everybody going for elimiations as quickly as they can. Martinez, being the only rudo, ended up being ganged up on after she had tried to eliminate Mike Bailey by pulling his tigths. Mike Bailey and Toni Storm hit a Hart Attack on Mercedes to eliminate her first. Immediately after Storm hit the Storm Zero to pin Bailey. The match comes down to Kairi Hojo, Dragon Lee, and Toni Storm. Lots of action with everybody gaining an advantage. The final moments saw Kairi Hojo hitting her flying elbow drop off the top on Storm to eliminate her. Dragon Lee and Hojo squared off and after a nearfall by Hojo after an inside cradle, Dragon hit the Dragon Driver to pin her and gain the victory for Mexico. Winner: Dragon Lee @ 16:26. We get word that UltraMantis Black is outside and has a report for us. The disturbance outside is a protest with a bunch of white guys in red hats holding up signs saying "Build the Wall". They are protesting all of these "illegals" working here in the USA. Two of the leaders of the protest seem to be Jay and Mark Briscoe. 5. Lucha Dream Match: [Técnico] Máscara Dorada vs [Rudo] Bárbaro Cavernario Two charismatic tremendous workers here go out to put on a classic. Cavernario takes advantage after hittng The Worm and a flying splash from the top to the floor. However Cavernario could not put him away leading to Dorada making a comeback. Back and forth it went until Cavernario misses a huge lariat and Dorada hit the Dorada Screwdriver for the win. Winner: Máscara Dorada @ 22:37. A commercial for "Festival de Lucha" debuting on the 23rd of Janaury is aired. 6. Tag Team Dream Match: [Técnicos] The Lucha Brothers (Pentagón Jr. y Rey Fénix) vs [Técnicos] The Boss 'n' Hug Connection (Sasha Banks y Bayley) Two of the best tag teams in the world both técnicos square off here. Quackenbush and Chikarson are very excited to see this contest. Everybody shakes hands before the match. We get an epic tag match with both teams hiting dives and taking times in charge. We get to a point where Bayley is isolated by The Lucha Brothers and are in control for a long while. Sasha gets begging for Bayley to make a tag or to roll to the floor, but she just can't. The Lucha Brothers go for a Doomsday Device, but Bayley rolls Pentagón Jr. into a Victory Roll for the win gaining the shocking win. Winners: The Boss 'n' Hug Connection @ 18:39. After the match Sasha seems displeased, feeling Bayley stole the spotlight. After some talking they hug it out. As Bayley goes to leave the ring, Banks hits her from behind with a cross block and then stomps on her leg a bunch of times before leaving the ring to boos. We bo to the announce booth where Mike Quackenbush and Leonard F. Chikarsoon are shocked by what happened. They can not believe "The Boss" here. UltraMantis Black joins the booth and applauds Banks for dropping the dead weight and proving she can do it on her own. The three go over the long history of Rush and LA Park and there many year feud and hatred. The main event is now set. 7. The Grudge: [Técnicos] LA Park y El Hijo del LA Park y Bandido vs [Rudos] Los Ingobernables (Rush y CIMA y Mia Yim) Head referee Bryce Remsburg lets the rules be relaxed here as Rush and LA Park immediately take it to the floor and brawl through out the arena. El Hijo del LA Park and Mia Yim square off and also take it to the floor. Those four brawl, throw chairs and garbage cans at each other. It's vicious. All the while CIMA and Bandido put on a beautiful high flying contest inside of the ring. As CIMA is running the ropes LA Park nails him with a chair and Bandido rolls him up to pick up the victory. Winners: LA Park y El Hijo del LA Park y Bandido @ 15:10. Everybody keeps brawling to the back as The Briscoe Brothers apear out of nowhere and attack Bandido leaving him laid out as the show ends.

You folks are just more creative then me, I want more control. I find I can build the stories better if I work backwards.

So this fucking ruled. The more I see of Martin the more I believe she is a time traveler. Power bomb, crowd brawling, and two table spots in 1985? Come on! Although Martin controlled most of this and was so fucking awesome just annihilating Petersen, Petersen did show amazing selling and garner great sympathy. I gave it a 7.0.

Obviously if you treat workers fairly you can't survive as a business.

I actually started my tournament with the final I wanted and then worked my way backwards. No random, all planned.

Wow, if a union would bankrupt a business, that means that business is fucking horrible to it's employees.

Thanks Rovert, some interesting stuff. She went into some of that stuff on Lillian Garcia's podcast as well. It seems like around the heel turn she has finally coped with all that stuff and is super confident.

I really wonder what unique views would be. Judging by twitter/reddit, there is a lot of repeat viewing of that video, sadly.

Thanks for the feedback, it's been very nice. Sorry about the big delay, but Volume 2 is here!

Good news for me. PWInsider reports that Harper and Rowan, together known as the Bludegon Brothers, have been cleared for action and could return as early as next Tuesday's SmackDown in Wichita, Kansas.

If they could get Grace, Blanchard, and DemonXBunny they are off to an amazing start.

I love that you went for an unique set up. Fun first show too. Lots of ECW vibes coming there. Looking forward to seeing a proper built up show.

TDT is the best, them and SBS. See a lot of them in Toronto. Going to be fun to have some smaller indies too.

Oh, my mistake. Here, I will just link to the google sheet then! Mercedes Martinez Rey Hechicero Rey Fénix LA Park Deonna Purazzo CIMA Silver Ant Volador Jr. ACH Sasha Banks Dragon Lee Mayu Iwatani Virus Jordynne Grace Máscara Dorada Kairi Hojo Rey Escorpión Princess KimberLee Pentagón Jr. Soberano Jr. IWC Title Tournament Winner Mia Yim Zeuxis Toni Storm Bayley Templario Daniel Makabe Mike Bailey Atlantis Bárbaro Cavernario Rush Rosemary Bandido I should had just copied and pasted my google sheet. There it is.

If TNA/ROH/WWE is off limits. Lots of joshi, too many to name, but there is 15-30 people they could snatch up just from there that would be great. Mercedes Martinez, Kimber Lee, Kay Lee Ray (maybe she went to NXT, I forget), Jordyanne Grace, Tessa Blanchard, Santana Garrett, Karen Q, Shotzi Blackheart, Deliah Doom, Penelope Ford, Solo Darling, Team Sea Stars, Willow Nightingale, Twisted Sisters, Kris Statlander, Kylie Rae, Viper (if not in NXT, I forgot if they got Alpha Female or Viper, but whichever if you can), Shazza McKenzie, Faye Jackson, Jessika Havok, Allysin Kay/Sienna, Cheerleader Melissa, Kris Wolf, Kikyo, Madison Rayne, Kaitlyn, Vanessa Kraven I'm sure there is a ton more if I really put some work into thinking about it. There is a lot of great talent out there.

Yes, way more than enough. There is so much talent out there they could do a whole women's promotion.

Exactly. They need to sign up some more talent to even get an idea of what they are going to deliver. They didn't do very well on All Out.

Love seeing all the different stuff people are setting up. Remember to comment on each other's stuff otherwise there may not be a point to this all.

I think AEW will live or die (with me) on what they do with the women. If they integrate them in like Beyond or Chikara they are very smart, if they treat them as a huge part of the show like NXT does (sometimes) they are good enough. However if they are just one match on the show and and it feels like a token match or a filler, then I have no use for AEW.

I'm looking forward to see if you can capture the "feel" of Nitro!

Yeah, I was talking about NJPW not the GRR. I didn't watch GRR, but him simply putting out a statement doesn't make it true. I think working for WWE on air would be the better defense in that situation.

A tournament has been announced to crown the IWC Champion! It will take place on television starting with the debut episode of "Festival de Lucha" on January 23, 2019 and be completed at IWC's event "Night of Champions" on March 30. 32 of the best wrestlers on earth will all be entered in this exciting single elimination tournament. IWC Title Tournament - Sheet1.pdf

The weight divisions in current NJPW really need to go too. Looking forward to see how this meshes.

Yes.