Post by Eddie D. on Dec 19, 2017 1:46:03 GMT
The greatest stories ever told all generally have the same premise.
Good versus evil.
Even this past weekend we are reminded of one of the great cinematic examples of light versus dark with the release of the latest Star Wars movie, The Last Jedi (Amazing by the way).
However, IWF has had it's battle of good versus evil dominating our television screens for the last several months in the form of Angel Blake versus Mason St. Croix.
Many thought Mason St. Croix has lost his mind when he first called out the often reclusive but dangerous so called "God" of IWF in Angel Blake. Little did we know that Blake welcomed the challenge of his former "Weapon of God" and took the challenge to an entirely new level when the two met in the first and only Compound Match.
A match that was less about winning and losing and more about living and dying. The rules were vague, it took place in the secluded village of Angel's cult in the hills of Litchfield County, Connecticut. Mason St. Croix arrived, defiant in the face of God, ignoring the threats, bringing a referee with him and looking to finally exact his revenge.
Their battle brought new meaning to the word brutality as the fought through out a church, across a court yard, buildings were burned to the ground, a church literally collapsed and in the end the finish was decided by a goddamn PANTHER!
A panther.
Never before in the history of professional wrestling has a wild animal as dangerous as a panther been involved int he finish of a match. It happened in the Compound Match. In the end we saw Angel stand victorious and Mason St. Croix seemingly finished. But Mason wouldn't stay down, he refused to just lick his wounds and go home. However his defiance was rewarded with somehow an even higher level of sickness on the part of Blake.
He literally hung the father of Mason St. Croix.
Thankfully Mason was able to save his father before serious harm was done but this inspired St. Croix to challenge Angel to a match God had made famous in another promotion, with a twist.
Introducing the Hangman's Death Cage.
In the promotion known as NCW, Angel Blake was undefeated in the original incarnation of the Death Cage, a weapons filled cage with a scaffold across the top, generally with a title hanging above it. Angel brought that match to IWF where he evolved it to greater atrocities against men like Spike Kane and Falcon.
Mason St. Croix found a way to up the ante. The only way to win was to hang your opponent from the scaffolding over the ring. Blake and Mason tore each other apart, they ripped each other's flesh, probably broke some bones and god knows their careers are all the shorter for having battled in that structure. By the end both men were covered in blood and barely moving before Mason St. Croix did the unthinkable and hit the Ranger's Way, hanging Angel from the scaffolding and becoming the only man to ever defeat Blake inside the Death Cage.
We all prayed that would be the end of it. Good had overcome evil. The hero won.
But Blake returned with a vengeance, dropping from the rafters with the noose still around his neck and laying Mason St. Croix out cold with a single Genocide Kick. In one move Mason's victory was wiped away and the feud was rekindled. Both men knew there was only one way this was ever going to end.
With one of them in the ground.
And that brings us to the Christmas Special and the Buried Alive Match.
We've already seen these men take each other to hell twice before and it literally curdles my stomach to think about what it's going to take to see one of these men buried six feet under.
Blake seems reborn in hatred while Mason is still burning with vengeance. Only one man walks away, quite literally.
Who will survive?
Good versus evil.
Even this past weekend we are reminded of one of the great cinematic examples of light versus dark with the release of the latest Star Wars movie, The Last Jedi (Amazing by the way).
However, IWF has had it's battle of good versus evil dominating our television screens for the last several months in the form of Angel Blake versus Mason St. Croix.
Many thought Mason St. Croix has lost his mind when he first called out the often reclusive but dangerous so called "God" of IWF in Angel Blake. Little did we know that Blake welcomed the challenge of his former "Weapon of God" and took the challenge to an entirely new level when the two met in the first and only Compound Match.
A match that was less about winning and losing and more about living and dying. The rules were vague, it took place in the secluded village of Angel's cult in the hills of Litchfield County, Connecticut. Mason St. Croix arrived, defiant in the face of God, ignoring the threats, bringing a referee with him and looking to finally exact his revenge.
Their battle brought new meaning to the word brutality as the fought through out a church, across a court yard, buildings were burned to the ground, a church literally collapsed and in the end the finish was decided by a goddamn PANTHER!
A panther.
Never before in the history of professional wrestling has a wild animal as dangerous as a panther been involved int he finish of a match. It happened in the Compound Match. In the end we saw Angel stand victorious and Mason St. Croix seemingly finished. But Mason wouldn't stay down, he refused to just lick his wounds and go home. However his defiance was rewarded with somehow an even higher level of sickness on the part of Blake.
He literally hung the father of Mason St. Croix.
Thankfully Mason was able to save his father before serious harm was done but this inspired St. Croix to challenge Angel to a match God had made famous in another promotion, with a twist.
Introducing the Hangman's Death Cage.
In the promotion known as NCW, Angel Blake was undefeated in the original incarnation of the Death Cage, a weapons filled cage with a scaffold across the top, generally with a title hanging above it. Angel brought that match to IWF where he evolved it to greater atrocities against men like Spike Kane and Falcon.
Mason St. Croix found a way to up the ante. The only way to win was to hang your opponent from the scaffolding over the ring. Blake and Mason tore each other apart, they ripped each other's flesh, probably broke some bones and god knows their careers are all the shorter for having battled in that structure. By the end both men were covered in blood and barely moving before Mason St. Croix did the unthinkable and hit the Ranger's Way, hanging Angel from the scaffolding and becoming the only man to ever defeat Blake inside the Death Cage.
We all prayed that would be the end of it. Good had overcome evil. The hero won.
But Blake returned with a vengeance, dropping from the rafters with the noose still around his neck and laying Mason St. Croix out cold with a single Genocide Kick. In one move Mason's victory was wiped away and the feud was rekindled. Both men knew there was only one way this was ever going to end.
With one of them in the ground.
And that brings us to the Christmas Special and the Buried Alive Match.
We've already seen these men take each other to hell twice before and it literally curdles my stomach to think about what it's going to take to see one of these men buried six feet under.
Blake seems reborn in hatred while Mason is still burning with vengeance. Only one man walks away, quite literally.
Who will survive?
Well howdy there pardner.