WIW Soul Survivor (2018)

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Soul Survivor (2018) is a professional wrestling pay-per-view event promoted by World Incorporated Wrestling for their Rage and ShowDown brands. It will take place on November 18, 2018, at the Washington Grizzly Stadium in Missoula, Montana. It will be the 20th event held under the Soul Survivor chronology.

Production

Background

Like the previous year, the theme of Soul Survivor is brand supremacy. With the exception of Rage's WIW Dynamite Division Championship (as it does not have a SmackDown counterpart), every champion of the Rage brand will face their counterpart of the ShowDown brand in non-title matches: the WIW World Champion against WIW Heavyweight Champion, the International Champion against the United Nation Champion, the Rage World Women's Champion against the ShowDown Heavyweight Women's Champion, and the Rage World Tag Team Champions against the ShowDown Heavyweight Tag Team Champions. Two traditional Survivor Series elimination matches, one male match and one female match, pitting five of Raw's male and female wrestlers against five of SmackDown's male and female wrestlers, respectively, will also occur.

Storylines

The card will consist of matches resulting from scripted storylines, with results predetermined by World Incorporated Wrestling's writers on the Raw and SmackDown brands. Storylines are produced on WIW's weekly television shows, Wednesday Night Rage and Thursday Night ShowDown.

At Glamorous Revolution, Sis Bates defeated Samantha Hendricks to retain the WIW World Women's Championship, while Ali Richards defeated Kaila Matteson and Jade Zimmer in a Last Woman Standing Triple threat elimination match to retain the WIW Heavyweight Women's Championship. During Bates's backstage interview following her win, she was confronted by Richards, and a match between the two was scheduled for Soul Survivor.

At All Hail, Kevin Hunter defeated Mark Semmler and Peter Damrow in a Triple threat match to retain the WIW Heavyweight Championship, while Tyler Mane defeated Matt Borske and Mad Hanson in a second triple threat match to regain the WIW World Championship, setting up a rematch between Hunter and Mane from the previous year's event.

During the All Hail pre-show, Corbin Edwards defeated Jeffrey Mahana to retain WIW United Nations Championship. Following the event, a match between Edwards and International Champion Kooper McAlmond was scheduled for Soul Survivor.

On the November 7 episode of Rage, Rage General Manager Rex Martin revealed Michael Fonger, Quay Painter, and Mr. Money in the Bank Kevin McAlmond as the first three members of Team Rage's men's team while naming himself as captain, stating he would not compete due to his managerial position, but McAlmond will be the competitive captain. McAlmond interjected, about having to team with Fonger and Painter, Martin told McAlmond he would take it under advisement about replacing them, Martin then had McAlmond face Painter where if McAlmond won, he would have been able to do what he pleased with the team; however, McAlmond lost by disqualification when Fonger and Stevens interfered. After the match, McAlmond attacked Fonger, Painter and Stevens. McAlmond then had an intense staredown with Martin before leaving the arena. The following night on SmackDown, SmackDown's Commissioner Dixie Finnegan and General Manager Turf Finnegan announced that Joe Linderman and Mark Semmler would be the co-captains for Team ShowDown's men's team. Linderman got the first pick and chose Turf, and Semmler agreed, since Turf had won the WIW World Cup at All Hail. Later, Semmler chose Richard Munoz as the next pick, but Linderman questioned Munoz's eligibility, since he hadn't competed in a long time. The two agreed that if Munoz could defeat Sean Conner, then Munoz would be on the team; Munoz defeated Conner. Later, Linderman and Semmler each chose one last person with the two facing each other to determine the final member. Semmler chose Devin Sulliam while Linderman's pick, Peter Damrow, defeated Sullivan to win the final spot. A brawl then ensued between Damrow, Semmler, Linderman and Turf.

On the November 7 episode of Rage, Rage General Manager Rex Martin named Kathy Kidder as captain of Team Rage's women's team, but in a non-competing capacity due to her duties as general manager for the women's division. The following night on ShowDown, ShowDown Women's-General Manager Stephanie Thennis revealed Kadee Jones, Sarah Hicks, Ashley Holshue, Emily Taflan and Kaila Matteson as the members of Team ShowDown's women's team, but Matteson did not show up instead Jade Zimmer came out and stated her hope to be the fifth member, Thennis told Zimmer she would think about it.

On the October 24 episode of Rage, Kooper McAlmond and Ryan Barnhart defeated Michael Fonger and Quay Painter and former WIW World Tag Team Champions, Wright of Storm (Scott Wright and Harlan Storm) to win the WIW World Tag Team Championship for the second time. On the November 7 epusode of Rage, a WIW World Tag Team Championship bout was schduled against The AOD (Abe Smith and Sean Thorton). Later that evening, Barnhart was attacked by stage by an unknown assalient and removed from the match. McAlmond said he would defend the titles alone. The AOD defeated McAlmond in a Professional wrestling match types (WIW)#Handicap match to win the WIW World Tag Team Championship.

On the November 8 episode of ShowDown, The Larsons (Steven Larson and Tom Larson) defeated The Dooms Day (represented by Marc Beltran and Steve Britz) to become the captains of Team ShowDown in the 5-on-5 tag team elimination match. Immediately after the match, The Larsons chose The Dooms Day as their first pick.

At Super Showdown Supercard, Nick Reimer defeated Aaron Schmalzried to win the WIW Dynamite Division Championship. On the October 31 episode of Dynamites Live, Luke Schultz defeated Cody Bechdol to become the number one contender, and his championship match against Reimer was confirmed to happen at Soul Survivor.

Matches

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