WIW Clash of Champions (2017)

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Clash of Champions (2017) (also known as Clash of the Champions (2017) is a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by WIW for the ShowDown brands. It will take place on December 17, 2017, at Elk Park Arena in Columbia Falls, Montana. It will be the second event under the Clash of Champions chronology.

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The card will feature matches resulting from scripted storylines and have results predetermined by WIW on the ShowDown brand. Storylines are produced on WIW's weekly television show ShowDown. Every championship exclusive to ShowDown – the WIW Heavyweight Championship, the United Nations Championship, the Heavyweight Tag Team Championship, and the Heavyweight Women's Championship – will be defended.

On the November 9, 2017 episode of ShowDown, Kevin Hunter defeated Craig Sandvig to win the WIW Heavyweight Championship for the second time. This resulted in Hunter taking Sandvig's place in the World Champion versus WIW Heavyweight Champion match at Soul Survivor against Rage's Tyler Mane, which Hunter lost. The following ShowDown, Hunter came out to address the fans about Soul Survivor and Sandvig's challenge. Sandvig, instead appeared on the TitanTron and challenged Hunter to a rematch for the cahmpionship at Clash of Champions. The Sandvig Brothers (Brian and Dave Sandvig) attacked Hunter but Hunter fought them off, laying them out with a steel chair before performing a Downward Spiral on Dave. Hunter then accepted Sandvig's challenge and a handicpa match between Hunter and The Sandvig Borthers was scheduled for the following week. The following week before the match could officially begin, Sandvig and The Sandvig Brothers attacked Hunter with a steel chair. However, Hunter was able to defeat The Sandvig Brothers. Afterward, Sandvig attempted to attack Hunter, but was chased off by Hunter's teammate, Mark Semmler, causing Sandvig to retreat. Hunter and Semmler than attacked the Sandvig Brothers while Sandvig watched from the stage, it was announced that The Sandvig Brothers was injured during the attack and would be out of action until 2018.

On the November 16 episode of ShowDown, Avery Gold defeated Beatrice LaGreca to win the Heavyweight Women's Championship. This resulted in Gold taking LaGreca's place in the World Women's Champion versus Heavyweight Women's Champion match at Soul Survivor against Rage's Brenah McAlmond-Quinn, which was won by McAlmond-Quinn. Days later on ShowDown, a rematch for the Heavyweight Women's Championship was scheduled, but the match ended in a no contest after Gold and LaGreca were attacked by the main roster return of Courtney Hope as well as main roster debuts of Ryan Newman and Rachele Brooke Smith, calling themsleves The Hope Squad, rumered as a women's subgroup to The Enterprise faction on ShowDown. On December 2, 2017 on WIW.com, in honoring the theme of the event, Lance Dyrdahl announced that that Gold and LaGreca would have a Heavyweight Women's Championship rematch at Clash of Champions.

On the November 23 episode of ShowDown, after Elijah Eason successfully defended the WIW United Nations Championship over James Masterson, a brawl brawl broke out between Eason, Charlie Lynch and Jordan Keltz. The following week, while Jax Teller was being interviewed by Jaydee Sullivan stating his intentions for the United Nations Championship, Eason interrupted. Teller issued a challenge to Eason for the United States Championship, later that night, but Eason denied his request. However, on December 2, in honoring the theme of the event, it was announced that Eason would defend the title in a Fatal four way match against Lynch, Keltz and Teller at Clash of Champions.

On the October 12 episode of ShowDown, Garett Joseph and Daniel Block defeated The Bad Boys (Bob Thennis and Chris Riley), The Authority of Wrestling (James Masterson and Michael Soto) and Darkness Rising (Darlow and Simmons) in a number one contender's fatal four-way tag team match. Joseph and Block received their Heavyweight Tag Team Championship match on the November 9 episode of ShowDown and defeated champions The Larsons (Steven and Tom Larson), but by disqualification, and as a result, The Larsons retained the titles. Over the next couple of weeks, the teams traded wins in singles matches where Steven defeated Joseph, and Block defeated Tom. On November 30 episode, The Doomsday (Steve Britz and Brandon) and Wright of Storm (Scott Wright and Harlan Storm) defeated The Larsons, and Block and Joseph when Wright pinned Steven. The following week, The following week, in honoring the theme of the event, it was announced that The Larsons would defend the Heavyweight Tag Team Championship against The Doomsday, Wright of Storm and Joseph and Block in a fatal four way tag team match at Clash of Champions.

At the August pay-per-view, SummerBash, Kevin Hunter defeated Daniel Mazurek to retain the WIW United Nations Championship with Turf Finnegan as special guest referee, which lead to a Hell in a Cell match at Halloween Hell where Tony Casiano and members of the Revolution appeared and helped Mazurek defeat Turf. On the following episode of SmackDown, the Revolution explained their actions at Halloween Hell. Turf appeared the following week and was confronted by Mazurek and the Revolution, and warned Turf that the Revolution would take him out "in mere seconds" if Turf wanted to compete again. Tuf said they would eventually settle the score, but his focus then was on Soul Survivor. Both Mazurek and Casiano, and members of the Revolution had been given opportunities to be on Team ShowDown at Soul Survivor, but lost their qualification matches. At Soul Survivor, the Revolution attacked Turf during the 5-on-5 Survivor Series interbrand elimination match against Team Rage, which ShowDown ultimately lost. On the following episode of ShowDown, Turf invided the Revolution to the ring. Dixie Finnegan scheduled Brent Huntley to face Mazurek on the following ShowDown. Turf deicded to ban the Revolution from ringside and make the match no disqualification. Despite this, Michael Nathe aided Maxurek in defeating Huntley. The following week, Turf decided that at Clash of Champions, Mazurek and a member of the Revolution would face Huntley and a partner of his choosing, Turf then announced that Huntley would face the member that choosen by Mazurek. Mazurek revealed that Casiano would be his partner at Clash of Champions, Turf would then announce that during the match Mazurek and the rest of the Revolution would be handcuffed to the ring ropes. During the match, Mazurek managed to escape the handcuffs, but Huntley still defeated Casiano. After the match, with the other members still handcuffed to the ropes, Mazurek and Casiano attacked Huntley, who was saved by the returning Corbin Edwards, who was revealed to be Mazurek's tag team partner. Afterwards, Turf announced himself as the special guest referee for the tag team match between the team of Mazurek and Casiano against the team of Huntley and Edwards. In addition, Turf added two more stipulation, the first was to that the winner's of the match would be No.1 contenders to the WIW Heavyweight Tag Team Championship and two, was that if Mazurek and Casiano were to lose, the entire Revolution would be fired from WIW.

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• List of WIW pay-per-view events

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