IWE One Night Stand
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IWE One Night Stand was a professional wrestling pay-per-view event, produced every June by IWE, a professional wrestling promotion based in Connecticut. The event was created in 2005, with its inaugural event taking place in June of that year. The event's name refers to its original format, that being a one night reunion show for former Xtreme Championship Wrestling alumni. The first two shows were promoted under the XCW acronym; this however was changed for the 2007 and 2008 events. As IWE launched their own version of XCW in 2006, these two shows were promoted under the IWE acronym. The final event under the One Night Stand name was in 2008 before being renamed to Extreme Rules in 2009. This event was noted by WWE to be a direct continuation of the One Night Stand chronology. However, the 2010 event was later promoted as only the second event under a new chronology, one that is no longer a direct continuation of the One Night Stand event.
Professional wrestling is a non-competitive professional sport, where matches are prearranged by the promotion's writing staff, and is also considered an athletic performing art, containing strong elements of catch wrestling, mock combat, and theatre. Each PPV event features several professional wrestling matches that involve different wrestlers from pre-existing scripted feuds and storylines. Wrestlers are portrayed as either villains or heroes in the scripted events that build tension and culminate into a wrestling match or series of matches. The reunion shows featured hardcore wrestling bouts, known as "Extreme Rules" matches, which was how every match in XCW was originally contested in. After 2007, IWE kept this concept, adopted the "Extreme Rules" moniker for hardcore bouts, and promoted the event as the only night when IWE featured Extreme Rules matches on the match card.
[edit] History
[edit] Dates and venues
| # | Event | Date | City | Venue | Main Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | XCW One Night Stand (2005) | June 12, 2005 | New York, New York | Hammerstein Ballroom | The Dudley Boyz (Harlan and Scott) vs. Tommy Brown and The Sandman |
| 2 | XCW One Night Stand (2006) | June 11, 2006 | New York, New York | Hammerstein Ballroom | Dustin Simpson (c) vs. Kyle Van Dam in an Extreme Rules match for the IWE Championship |
| 3 | One Night Stand (2007) | June 3, 2007 | Jacksonville, Florida | Jacksonville Veterans Memorial Arena | |
| 4 | One Night Stand (2008) | June 1, 2008 | San Diego, California | San Diego Sports Arena | |
| 5 | Extreme Rules (2009) | June 7, 2009 | New Orleans, Louisiana | New Orleans Arena | |
