WIW Soul Survivor (2017)

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Soul Survivor (2017) is a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by WIW for the Rage and ShowDown brands. It took place on November 19, 2017, at the Elk Park Arena in Columbia Falls, Montana. It will be the ninteeth event under the Soul Survivor chronology.

Background

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The card featured matches that resulted from scripted storylines and had results predetermined by WIW on the Rage and ShowDown brand. Storylines were produced on WIW's weekly television shows Wednesday Night Rage, Thursday Night ShowDown and Dynamites Live, the latter of which is dynamite division-exclusive.

At Rage's pay-per-view No Remorse, Tyler Mane defeated Dustin Simpson to retain the WIW World Championship, even with stablemate and International Champion Kevin McAlmond serving as special guest referee, while at ShowDown's Halloween Hell pay-per-view, Craig Sandvig retained the WIW Heavyweight Championship against Charlie Lynch. On the October 19 episde of ShowDown, after a ShowDown Live event, Sandvig was asked by a fan what was next for him. Sandvig said that he had defeated every worthy opponent on the ShowDown roster and that at Soul Survivor, he wanted to face Rage's top champion, Tyler Man. Sandvig, howver, was interrupted by Kevin Hunter and Mark Semmler, who took exception to Sandvig's claim and challenged Sandvig for the WIW Heavyweight Championship. Sandvig said that both Hunter and Semmler were a couple of joke's, and Hunter and Semmler retaliated by attacking Sandvig and fighting off The Sandvig Brothers (Brian and Dave Sandvig). Backstage, Sandvig confronted ShowDown General Manager Turf Finnegan about the incident, and said that both of The Sandvig Brothers should make Hunter and Semmler pay and Finnegan agreed. Afterwards, it was announced that Mane and his spokeswomen Scout Taylor-Compton and Renae Geerlings would be on Rage the following week to address the challenge.

On the October 23 episode of Rage, Rage General Manager Rex Martin announced the match card for Soul Survivor. With the exception of Rage's WIW Dynamite Division Championship (as it does not have a ShowDown counterpart), every champion of the Rage brand was scheduled to face their counterpart of the ShowDown brand: World Champion Tyler Mane against Heavyweight Champion Craig Sandvig, International Champion Kevin McAlmond against United Nations Champion Elijah Eason, World Women's Champion Brenah McAlmond-Quinn against Heavyweight Women's Champion Beatrice LaGreca, and World Tag Team Champions The Hoopers (Matt Hooper and Josh Hooper) vs. Heavyweight Tag Team Champions The Larsons (Steven Larson and Tom Larson). Martin also announced that there would be two traditional Soul Survivor elimination matches, one male match and one female match, pitting five of Rage's male and female wrestlers against five of ShowDown's male and female wrestlers, respectively. Martin was then interupted Eric Stevens, who wanted to face McAlmond for the International Championship at Soul Survivor, Martin declined Stevenes challenge, telling Stevens that Soul Survivor would once again be Rage vs. ShowDown, Stevens tried to bully Martin into giving him a shot at the International Title, but was interrupted by the International Champion Kevin McAlmond who agreed to compete at Soul Survivor twice on behalf of Team Rage and face Eason first, then be part of Team Rage in the elimination match, Martin told McAlmond he'd think have to think about it, McAlmond agreed and would then challenge Eason to do the same, facing him in the singles match early in the night and then join Team ShowDown in the Soul Survivor elimination match.

Team ShowDown's men's team got its first member on the October 26 episode of ShowDown. Brent Huntley qualified by defeating Tony Casiano. Two qualifying matches for Team ShowDown were scheduled for the following week between Charlie Lynch and Daniel Mazurek, and another between Jordan Keltz and Joe Linderman.

On the October 23 episode of Rage, Team Rage's women's team began to take shape. A triple threat match between Leah, Victoria Lehr and Sari Pasma as scheduled to determine the Captain for Team Rage, which was won by Leah. On the October 26 episode of ShowDown, Allison Richards, Kadee Jones, Kaila Matteson, Sarah Hicks and Avery Gold were announced as the five members of Team ShowDown; Richards was named Captain by defeating the other four in a fatal five-way elimination match, by last eliminating Kaila Matteson. On October 28 it was announced by WIW's facebook page that, Jessica Rothe would make her debut on the November 1 episode of Rage, where she defeated Brianna Ferris to qualify for the elimination match.

Matches

See also

• List of WIW pay-per-view events

References

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