WIW SuperBrawl 9

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SuperBrawl IX is the ninth annual SuperBrawl professional wrestling pay-per-view (iPPV) event produced by WIW for the Rage and ShowDown brands. It took place on April 2, 2016, at the MetraPark in Billings, Montana.

Production

Background

SuperBrawl is considered WIW's flagship event, having been described as the Super Bowl of sports entertainment.

SuperBrawl will feature professional wrestling matches that involved wrestlers from pre-existing scripted feuds or storylines that play out on WIW's primary television programs, Rage and ShowDown. Wrestlers will portray heroes or villains as they follow a series of events that build tension and culminate in a wrestling match or series matches.

Storylines

See also: Professional wrestling

The card will include matches resulting from scripted storylines and have results predetermined by WIW on the Rage and ShowDown brands. Storylines are produced on WIW's weekly television shows, Wednesday Night Rage, Thursday Night ShowDown, and Dynamite Live, the latter of which is Dynamites-exclusive.

The winner of the World War Rumble Match traditionally earns a world championship match at SuperBrawl. With the reintroduction of the brand extension in mid-2016, which resulted in two world titles in the promotion again, the Royal Rumble winner received a match for either Rage's WIW World Championship or ShowDown's WIW Heavyweight Championship. Brent Huntley won the 2017 World War Rumble match and thereby earned a title match for his brand's WIW Heavyweight Championship. On the following ShowDown, Huntley warned WIW Heavyweight Champion Mark Semmler, who had won the championship from Kevin Hunter at the World War, that if he manages to retain the title at Steel Roulette, he would be taking the title from him at SuperBrawl. Huntley then pinned Semmler in a tag team match pitting The Family (Huntley and and Jon Rispens) against Semmler and former Family member Jeremy Masiak, but lost to Huntley the following week thanks to a distraction by Masiak. At Steel Roulette, Huntley defeated Masiak, while Rispens won the Elimination Chamber match to become the new WIW World Champion. The following ShowDown, Rispens retained the championship against Semmler and Hunter, despite an attack by Masiak. Huntley then came out and said that he refuses to fight Rispens at SuperBrawl due to his devotion and salvation to Rispens. ShowDown General Manager Turf Finnegan then scheduled a 20-man battle royal on the February 23 episode to find a new opponent for Rispens at SuperBrawl. The battle royal ended in a draw when Semmler, Hunter and Masiak went over the top rope simultaneously; Hunter and Semmler defeated Masiak in a double pin the following week to become the number one contender. However, at the conclusion of the March 2 episode, as Rispens was about to deliver a message on Huntley's whereabouts, when Huntley appeared on the titan-tron and was at The Family compound, which was also the burial of one of Rispens relatives, the cult leader that Rispens followed and named his finisher after. Huntley declared that he was no longer Rispens's servant and that he only joined The Family to destroy them from the inside. Huntley then set the Family compound on fire, which caused Rispens to have a mental breakdown, and Huntley said he was coming for the WIW World Championship at SuperBrawl, Hunter and Semmler would then confront the broken and shattered Rispens and end up beating him up and executing a double powerbomb through the announcers table. Due to the confusion, Turf Finnegan and ShowDown Commissioner Dixie Finnegan scheduled Huntley to face Hunter and Semmler on the March 9 episode of ShowDown to determine the decisive number one contender for Rispens, the match ended in a no contest when Rispens interfered and attacked all three men, which brought out Turf Finnegan, who scheduled a Fatal four way elimination match between all four men at SuperBrawl.

At Soul Survivor, Tyler Mane made his WIW debuting humiliating and defeating Chris LaGreca in one minute and twenty seconds. Both then competed in the World War match; Mane entered at number twenty and dispatched of several other wrestlers before Mane came out at number twenty-nine and once again humiliated LaGreca by quickly eliminating him from the match; Mane was soon after eliminated. The following Wednesday on Rage, LaGrca and Beatrice LaGreca appeared and challenged Mane to one final match at SuperBrawl IX. On the following Rage, Mane accepted LaGreca's challenge to officially set up the match. Mane also challenged Kevin McAlmond for the WIW World Championship at Final Fight on March 5, 2017, which was made official. On the February 22 episode of Rage, The LaGreca's said in an interview that if Mane wins the WIW World Championship, LaGreca will challenge him fro the title at SuperBrawl, as that will be another thing LaGreca to take from Mane. Later that evening, McAlmond and Mane teamed together to defeat The Erickson Brothers. On the following week's Rage, Mane and McAlmond would team together once more to defeat Matt Borske and Jeremy Calvert when McAlmond pinned Calvert. Also at Final Fight, Michael Phelps returned to the company as the mystery opponent for Matt Borske, Phelps would go on to defeat Matt Borske in Borske's last chance to be in the main event of SuperBrawl, earning Phelps a place in the WIW World Championship match, later in the evening, Mane defeated McAlmond to win the WIW World Championship when Evolved Revolution interfered and at first attacked both men, but McAlmond and Mane cleared the ring of the group, but Borske came back in behind Mane and struck McAlmond with the title belt, allowing Mane to hit McAlmond with a chokeslam to win the title. On the March 8 episode of Rage, Rex Martin announced that the WIW World Championship would be defended in a Triple threat elimination match at SuperBrawl.

In June 2016, Kevin McAlmond and Matt Borske began feuding once again when McAlmond and Borske fought to a no contest when The Enterprise and The Authority of Wrestling interfered and a brawl ensued to end the show the outcome caused McAlmond to retain the WIW World Heavyweight Championship on the line at Money in the Bank on June 19, 2016. They had a rematch on the following weeks Rage, with McAlmond successfully defending the championship, McAlmond but getting attacked by Borske's brother Ryan Borske who aided Matt in a double team assault and putting McAlmond through the announce table. At Halloween Hell, McAlmond successfully defend the newly named WIW World Championship against Ryan Borske in a Hell in a Cell match. At Soul Survivor, McAlmond and Matt Borske were forced to team together as part of Team Rage, but all through the match would fight and argue, they would soon be the Soul Survivors for Team Rage, but would then begin brawling after. The following week on Rage, McAlmond challenged Borske to a fight, which Borske accepted. The two would fight through the arena, McAlmond would then be attacked by Ryan Borske and two masked assailants, McAlmond would miss the next few Rage's due to the injuries, whole McAlmond was gone then-WIW International Champion Dustin Simpson would continue McAlmond's feud with Matt and Ryan, defeating the Brothers in a handicap match to earn a championship match against McAlmond. At Winter Warzone, McAlmond defended the WIW World Championship against Simpson in a Champion vs. Champion match, with the match ending in a no contest when Borske debuted the newly named and improved Evolved Revolution interfered this would only bring out McAlmond newly and improved group, lead by Leah, she dubbed The Club of Chaos brawled with the Evolved Revolution to end the show. On the following weeks episode of Rage, a match was set with The Club of Chaos (WIW World Champion Kevin McAlmond and WIW International Champion Dustin Simpson) defending both championship against Evolved Revolution (Matt Borske and newcomer Jeremy Calvert), however on the January 11, 2017 episode of Rage, Calvert defeated Simpson to win the WIW International Championship in an impromptu title match. At World War, Calvert and Borske defeated McAlmond and Simpson in a No Disqualification Tornado tag team match when Calvert pinned Simpson after interference from Mad Hanson with the stipulations to the match being that, if McAlmond was pinned, he'd loss the WIW World Championship, and if Calvert was pinned, he'd loss the WIW International Championship, neither champion was pinned so both championships stayed with the champions. At Final Fight, Tyler Mane defeated McAlmond to win the WIW World Championship, when Evolved Revolution attacked McAlmond without Mane knowing. On the March 8, 2017 episode of Rage, McAlmond attacked Borske and Calvert and challenged Calvert to a match at SuperBrawl for the WIW International Championship, Borske accepted the challenge for him.

At Winter Warzone, Kaila Matteson defeated Sari Pasma win her record third WIW World Women's Championship, ending their long feud, and as per a post-event stipulation, as long as one of them were champion, the other could not challenge for the title. Matteson began Kelli Kerpa, resulting in a championship match at the World War event, where Matteson retained the title. The next Wednesday on Rage, Kerpa pinned Matteson in a tag team match, this granting her a rematch at the title on the February 15 episode of Rage, where she defeated Matteson to become the new World Women's Champion, thanks to help from Pasma, later that night Matteson was granted her rematch and defeated Kerpa to win her record fourth World Women's Championship, however after her win Miss Money in the Bank, Kara Magill attacked Matteson and cashed in her contract to defeat Matteson and win her first World Women's Championship. The following week, Matteson confronted Magill and demanded she relinquish her title due the way she had won it, but Magill refused. Kerpa then came out and invoked her championship rematch for Final Fight, Matteson and Kerpa argued about who gets the first rematch until Rage Commissioner Glennda McAlmond confronted all three women and scheduled a triple threat match for the title at Final Fight, which saw Magill retain after Pasma interfered. The following Wednesday night on Rage, Pasma said that her and Magill should face off for the title at SuperBrawl IX as i was a dream of theirs to face each other at the event. Matteson came out and demanded that she have a rematch due to Pasma's interference and said that Pasma was only pretending to like Magill and that she interfered due to the Winter Warzone stipulation, Victoria Lehr confronted all four women to claim her shot at World Women's Championship, which ultimately lead to Rage General Manager Rex Martin announcing that Pasma would face Magill that night to qualify for the match, Martin would also announced Lehr and Matteson next week and if Lehr is to qualify the match would become a fatal five way elimination match, Pasma defeated Pasma in her qualification match to make the World Women's Championship match a triple threat at SuperBrawl.

On the World War pre-show, The Club of Chaos (Matt Hooper and James Burdick) defeated Craig Remsen and Seth Smith to win the WIW World Tag Team Championship. Smith and Remsen invoked their rematch clause, but lost due to interference from Ryan Gleason and Brian Tobol, it would later be announced that every member of the Club of Chaos were recognized as World Tag Team Champions and would be able to defend the titles under the Freebird Rule. On the February 22 episode of Rage, Gleason and Tobol defeated Smith and Remsen to receive a tag title match against The Club of Chaos at Final Fight, were Matt Hooper and Ryan Barnhart defended and retain the titles. The following Wednesday on Rage, in a rematch Smith and Remsen got involved, cosing Gleason and Tobol the titles. Later on, Rage General Manager Rex Martin announced a fatal four way elimination match on the March 15 episode of Rage and the winners would go on to challenge The Club of Chaos for the titles at SuperBrawl IX, the match will involved Gleason and Tobol, Remsen and Smith, two members from the Evolved Revolution and two members of the The Wolf Pack, the match ended in a no contest when The Club of Chaos attacked everyone, this made Rex Martin schedule a fatal four way tag team match for the titles at SuperBrawl.

At Steel Roulette, Sarah Hicks defeated Brittany Hiatt to win the WIW Women's Championship. The following Thursday night on ShowDown, Hiatt invoked her rematch but was unsuccessful in regaining the title. The following week on ShowDown, Beatrice LaGreca hinted that she wanted to face Hicks for the title. On the March 9 episode of ShowDown, during a in-ring segment with Hicks, Allison Richards, Courtney Hope, Kayty Kapphan, Megan Zanto, LaGreca, Riley Austin, Shaina Dargan and a few others from the ShowDown Women's roster including Hiatt's ally Jamie Carroll staking their claim to the title shot at SuperBrawl, which seemed to upset Hiatt. ShowDown General Manager Turf Finnegan then came out and informed everyone that they would all get their opportunity at the title at SuperBrawl as he was scheduled Hicks to defend the title in a Women's Open Invitational match at SuperBrawl. On the March 16 episode ShowDown, former Women's Champion's Allison Richards and Brittany Hiatt announced their participation in the match, later that evening newly signed ShowDown Women Kadee Jones and Lindsey Mahrt announced their participation as well as Courtney Hope, Kayty Kapphan, Jamie Carroll and Beatrice LaGreca all announcing their participation.

On the March 9 episode of ShowDown, Devin Sullivan became the first wrestler to announce his participation in the 4th annual Brian McAlmond Memorial Battle Royal. Afterwards in a WIW.com exclusive, Elijah Eason announced that he would be in the match. On the March 15 episode of Rage, Park McKinnon, Ryan Barnhart, Josh Erickson and the returning TJ McAlmond announced their participation in the battle royal.

Matches

Announced André the Giant Memorial Battle Royal participants

     – Rage

     – ShowDown

See also

• List of WIW pay-per-view events

References

External links

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