Know Your Enemies 2009

Saturday, April 11th, 2009
Bar Le Skratch, Chomedey, Laval, Quebec, CANADA

Lionel Knight and Nick Watts vs. Mike "Speedball" Bailey and Brian Corcoran
Mike Bailey and Brian Corcoran beat Lionel Knight and Nick Watts

EXesS vs. Alex Silva
EXesS forced Alex Silva to tap

EXesS vs. "Heavy" Maxx Fury
Maxx Fury pinned EXesS

Dan Paysan vs. Shane Matthews
Dan Paysan beat Shane Matthews

Super Smash Brothers (Player Uno and Stupefied) vs. Shayne Hawke and Twiggy
Twiggy pinned Stupefied for the win.

Jagged vs. James Stone
James Stone beat Jagged

Green Phantom vs. Nova Cain
Green Phantom and Nova Cain fought to a no-contest.

IWS Title Match: IWS Champion Beef Wellington vs. Franky the Mobster
Beef Wellington beat Franky the Mobster to retain his IWS Title.

Detailed Results for IWS Know Your Enemies 2009

Please keep in mind that when this show happened we had no idea that TNA would reschedule their PPV and TV taping on the following Monday so some of the matches that were announced may end up changing or being postponed.

Know Your Enemies started with Lionel Knight and Kevin Watts bringing heavy-hitting brawling to bear in an attempt to ground the high-flying new warriors Mike “Speedball” Bailey and Brian Corcoran. Originally, Lionel Knight was supposed to team with his long-time teammate Chris Bishop, but the hard-luck and injury-prone Chris Bishop was forced to cancel leading Lionel to recruit Nick Watts. Speedball and Corcoran while no match for Knight and Watts’ strength and experience were able to use their greater cohesion as a team to get the win.

Alex Silva looks better and better every time I see him wrestle. He is built like a balding gorilla and he stood his ground against EXesS giving as good as he got. Unfortunately, what makes EXesS most dangerous especially to younger wrestlers is that if he can’t beat you with strikes, he switches straight to submission wresting, trapping Silva in a legal choke-hold.

With EXesS gloating over his latest victory, “Heavy” Maxx Fury came out to accept EXesS’ open challenge. The ensuing match was short but sweet as the two men traded both strikes and holds with the crowd chanting “GSP” to cheer them on. The end was quick but brutal as Maxx escaped from a submission on the mat, got his arms free and was able to grab EXesS by the back of his head, drive EXesS’s head into the mat and get the quick pin on a stunned EXesS.

After the match, chronic poor sport EXesS attacked Maxx from behind, trapping him in a submission match and refusing to let go as IWS officials swarmed the ring. After being forced to relinquish his hold, EXesS prompted by the crowd chanting “GSP” and “Matt Sierra” challenged Maxx to an MMA match at the Medley.

IWS newest champion, Shayne Hawke joined with fan favourite Twiggy to take on the Super Smash Brothers. Give credit to the win both to Twiggy and Hawke’s hearts and their heads as they rallied from Stupefied and Player Uno’s team attack and then showed that they had done their advance scouting as Shayne Hawke took out Uno as Stupefied was prepping Twiggy for their double-team finisher. Hawke’s ambush on Uno gave Twiggy the chance to counter Stupefied into a flipping leveraged roll-up for the win.

After celebrating their victory, Twiggy challenged his own partner to a match at the Medley with Shayne Hawke’s Canadian Title on the line. Hawke accepted the challenge but reminded Twiggy that to win the belt, he had cracked EXesS’ ribs and put the former champion in the hospital. “If I was ready to do that to win this belt, are you ready for what I am prepared to do tokeep it?” asked Shayne Hawke to an undeterred Twiggy.

The IWS tag team champs, the Untouchables offered 2.0 a chance to place themselves at the front of the line to win back the IWS Tag Team Titles and go back to the Promised Land. All Shane Matthews and Stupefied had to do was win one of their two singles matches against the Untouchables and they would win a title match at the Medley. Unfortunately for fans of 2.0, Dan Paysan beat Shane Matthews while James Stone completed the sweep by beating Jagged.

In more revolting news, I lost a bet to James Stone that if he could beat Jagged that I would no longer refer to him as “Jimmy” Stone. This makes two names changes forced on me at the IWS as Shane Matthews and I were served with papers restraining us from calling Brian Corcoran “Cocknocker”.

PCO, to the delight of the crowd, made an appearance reminding fans that Kevin Nash cost PCO his job with the WWF after their last match in Montreal in 1995. Their match at the Medley will be PCO’s first chance to get his revenge, a match literally 14 years in the making.

With the Evil Ninja ducking the Green Phantom, our Hardcore Hero issued an open challenge answered by NCW Champion NovaCain. After a spirited brawl, NovaCain took out the IWS referee for what Nova saw as a slow count, leading to the replacement ref Yan to throw out the match.

Beef Wellington’s run at the IWS title and his reign as champion have been marked by two common themes: Beef wins and he wins with tactics that infuriate the fans including winning Fans Bring the Weapons by pinning Viking with ether and beating Manny in a Triple Hell Death Match with a sleeper hold.

Franky dominated their hardcore brawl that saw Beef destroyed with multiple chairs and a ladder. With a battered ladder in the corner and a ring filled with chairs, Beef just barely wriggled out of Franky’s grasp before Franky took his title with a match-ending choke power-bomb/ Instead. Beef escaped with a victory after ten consecutive low blows, “One to match every year of the IWS. I am the IWS champion and I will stay the IWS Champion by any means necessary.”

This brought out a returning Manny to one side of the ring and the Green Phantom to the other as each man made their case to face Beef Wellington at the Medley. IWS President Nic Paterson put the kibosh on both of their challenges announcing that at the Medley, Beef Wellington would defend his title against Franky the Mobster, Kevin Steen and El Generico while PCP Crazy F’N many and the Green Phantom would face each other in an IWS Death Match.

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