
Winner
Takes All 2016Court Time Sports Center -
Elizabeth, PA
Complete results from Nick
Lendl with Joe Dombrowski
Photos from Daniel Hooven
Short-Form Results
Wardlow def. Jimmy Vega$
IWC Tag Team Champions The Fraternity (Channing Decker & Trent Gibson)
def. Remy Lavey & Keith Haught
Bloop bloop
Team Storm (Jaxon Argos & RC Dupree) def. Andrew Palace in a ladder
match to earn an IWC contract
Britt Baker def. April Sera, Marti Belle, and Sonya Strong to become the
first IWC Women's Champion
Shane InYaFace won a Proving Ground Battle Royal, last eliminating Bulk
Nasty
IWC Super Indy Champion Chris LeRusso def. Sam Adonis
Wardlow def. RJ City to win the vacant IWC World Heavyweight
Championship |

What a year 2016 was for IWC! To cap off one of the biggest
years in IWC history, we returned to the Court Time Sports
Center to present Winner Takes
All
on December 10th in front of a standing-room only crowd! The
main event of the evening was set to feature IWC Word
Heavyweight Champion, DJZ, defending his title against Justin
LaBar’s hand-picked challenger, RJ City.
In a strange turn of events, LaBar took to the microphone after
the opening match where another one of his clients, Wardlow, was
able to slide past IWC mainstay Jimmy Vegas thanks to LaBar’s
predictable shenanigans at ringside. Disappointment filled the
Court Time Sports Center as LaBar announced that DJZ was injured
and unable to defend the IWC World Heavyweight Title, demanding
that he come out and hand over the title to LaBar’s camp right
then and there!
Surprisingly, he was right… DJZ appeared in the entrance way in
street clothes and a brace on his wrist. DJZ regrettably
announced that he would indeed have to vacate the
IWC
World Heavyweight Championship! RJ City made his way to the ring
next, prepared to claim his prize. With the World Title now in
the clutches of Team LaBar, they would have more power than
ever. LaBar took the belt from DJZ and proclaimed that now
someone worthy would finally be called champion!
Just then, in perhaps the biggest shock of the night, Wardlow
nearly took RJ City’s head off with a clubbing clothesline and
began pummeling him while City wailed on the mat in pain! LaBar
never wanted RJ as his champion, that was never the plan at
all... LaBar then proceeded to officially fire RJ City from Team
LaBar and announced that if he wanted to be World Heavyweight
Champion, he’d have to take the title from The Man with War in
his Name!
IWC
Owner Justin Plummer’s hands were tied. He was forced to make
the match: Wardlow vs. RJ City for the Vacant IWC World
Heavyweight Championship in the main event! It didn’t take long
for fans to establish RJ City as the solid fan favorite and they
were firmly behind him throughout the match. The veteran
experience of City was able to take away some of the size
differential between the two, but Wardlow was just too much for
“The Entertaining One,” and not even RJ’s patented Knee Arthur
maneuver could keep the big man from Cleveland down.
One clubbing blow after another, culminating with a huge Swanton
from the top rope led to the end for RJ City and Wardlow was
able to pin him for the three count, ending his 2016 undefeated
and as the NEW IWC World Heavyweight Champion! 2017 may in fact
be the year of Team LaBar. Who, if anybody, will be
able
to take the title away from The Man with War in his Name?
Since Bryan Bowers left IWC in November, Jaxon Argos an RC
Dupree have been without a leader to guide them on their path in
IWC. That didn’t stop them from continuing their pursuit of
Andrew Palace, the man Bowers had been targeting before his
surprising exit from IWC. A familiar situation for Palace, again
he found himself dealing with two loud mouths who planned to
make a name for themselves at the expense of one of IWC’s top
stars.
The Strom Wrestling Academy graduates laid out a challenge
for Palace that nobody expected him to accept: a 2 on 1 Handicap
Ladder Match at Winner Takes All where full-time IWC contracts
would be hung in a briefcase above the ring. If Argos and Dupree
were victorious, they’d become full-fledged members of the IWC
roster.
It
was a no-brainer. No. Why would Palace accept such a brutal
match against two men? Then there was the upside… If Palace
could beat Argos and Dupree 2 on 1, they would leave IWC
forever! Palace accepted and the match was signed for December
10th. Team Storm continued to taunt Palace with numerous videos
on Social Media mocking him in the weeks leading up to the
Ladder Match, and Palace promised to shut the two loud-mouth
rookies up for good at Winner Takes All!
Palace wanted to teach these two a lesson, and dished out
punishment the likes of which we haven’t seen from him in IWC.
It was clear that Palace, win or lose, had set out to beat
respect into the two rookies! Palace used the ladder to his
advantage, brutalizing the young upstarts, and at one point
planted the face of Jaxon Argos into a steel chair set up in the
middle of the ring! Enough was enough. They had learned their
lesson. It was time for Palace to climb the ladder
and
end the match. Before he could grab the briefcase however, the
lights went out! When they came back on, the debuting Jack
Pollock stood in the ring, and proceeded to attack Andrew
Palace! Why was Pollock here? Why was he attacking Palace? The
answer became clear pretty quickly as Pollock took off his
button-down shirt and revealed a Storm Wrestling Academy t-shirt
underneath!
With the help of Pollock, Argos and Dupree were able to pull out
the upset, grabbing the briefcase and cementing their spots on
the IWC roster! Christmas came early for the Storm Wrestling
graduates, and with Jack Pollock leading them into 2017, it
seems silly to believe the war with Andrew Palace is over…
At
Clearfield Carnage in November, Justin Plummer unveiled the
brand new IWC Women’s Championship belt and promised to crown
the first ever champion at Winner Takes All! Weeks later it was
announced that the Champion would be crowned in a Fatal 4-way
elimination match and the participants would be Britt Baker,
Marti Belle, Sonya Strong, and April Sera, four women more than
worthy of leading our Women’s Division into the future.
With four participants involved, and such high stakes on
the line, the match quickly spilled to the outside and almost
caused the referee to lose control of the match. The women
surprised many of the Court Time fans as weapons were introduced
into the match and at one point a table was even set up on the
outside. April Sera would be the unlucky one to crash through
the table after being pushed off the top rope by Marti Belle,
who quickly showed she wasn’t interested in making any alliances
during the course of the match.
That wasn’t the end for April Sera, however. Marti Belle
was able to eliminate Sonya Strong, but was then eliminated by
Baker before Sera made her way back into the ring, refusing to
quit. It was down to the final two. Britt Baker and April Sera
traded shots back and forth until Sera was able to connect with
a huge Super Kick that echoed throughout the building! To the
surprise of many, Baker was able to kick out and change the
momentum of the match, getting the upper hand and ultimately
pinning April Sera to become the first ever IWC Women’s
Champion! A historic moment for sure, Baker was then presented
with the brand new Women’s Championship belt and now The Mayor
of Brittsburgh looks forward to 2017 where a whole new crop of
challengers will emerge with the intent of taking that brand new
title from around her waist!
Chris
LeRusso escaped another IWC Super Indy Title defense thanks to
manager BC Steele’s antics at ringside, this time at the expense
of CMLL star Sam Adonis, who was returning to IWC for the first
time in several years. In what would turn out to be the shocker
of the evening, before the match started, WWE Superstar Chris
Jericho made a surprise appearance and was the guest ring
announcer for the title match!
Adonis had the champion beat on more than one occasion, but
thanks to BC Steele being in the right place at the right time,
the referee was never in good position to make a count. Due to
this, Adonis wasn’t ever able to truly gain the upper hand and
was eventually pinned by LeRusso after a hard shot to the head
with the Super Indy Championship belt! LeRusso spent most of
2016 working his way to the Super Indy Title, and he plans on
spending as much of 2017 as possible defending it!
Remy
Lavey and Keith Haught had a breakout year in 2016 as a Tag
Team. They were able to upset The Fraternity for the IWC Tag
Team Titles in April at Night of The Superstars, and even gained
the respect of locker room veteran Marshall Gambino after a
rivalry that lasted throughout the entire summer. This was their
final opportunity to once again dethrone the obnoxious Tag Team
Champions and prove that they not only belong, but are the top
team in all of IWC!
The Fraternity gained control quickly, attacking Lavey and
Haught from behind before the in-ring introductions.
Momentum
eventually shifted to the side of the challengers and The Frat
was closer than ever to being dethroned until Trent Gibson threw
water in the face of Lavey, allowing Channing Decker to roll him
up from behind and get the pinfall victory, retaining the Tag
Team Titles and securing one final victory for The Fraternity
before the end of the year.
The Frat dominated most of 2016, holding the Tag Team Titles the
entire year with the exception of two weeks where they were
upset by Lavey and Haught in April. Will this next year be as
successful for the cocky frat boys? With many teams on the
outside looking in, and the debut of the Mega Plowers looming,
Decker and Gibson surely look like they’ll have their hands full
in 2017!
In
other action, Shane InYaFace was able to outlast 19 other
Superstars and win the annual Proving Ground Battle Royal. The
eclectic group of participants included The STD’s, Bulk Nasty,
Santana Diamonds, some recent graduates of the Iron City
Wrestling Academy, and women’s sensation Shotzi Blackheart, just
to name a few…
Bulk Nasty dominated the entire match, eliminating 10 Superstars
in the process, all while manager BC Steele kept score at
ringside! Known for his heart, Shane
InYaFace
wouldn’t surrender to the 300 pound “Human Crime Scene” when the
two were the last remaining entrants, and was able to send the
big man over the top rope to gain the all-important victory.
Shane now looks ahead to February where he will challenge any
champion of his choosing at Proving Ground!
What a year 2016 was! Familiar faces returned, new names
emerged, and IWC continued to prove why we are the single best
Independent Wrestling Promotion in all of Pennsylvania! Log on
to our Facebook page or Tweet @IWCwrestling to let us know what
you want to see next year! Thank you for your support and we’ll
see you all in 2017!
  
  
  
  
 
 
  
 
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