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 Majestic Valley Arena in Kalispell, Montana. It will be the ninteeth event under the Soul Survivor chronology.

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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. Hunter and Semmler defeated The Sandvig Brothers in singles match on the following two episodes. Mane and his spokeswomen Scout Taylor-Compton and Renae Geerlings appeared on the October 25 episode of Rage to adress Sandvig's challenge where all three laughed at it. Compton state that Sandvig was not Mane's counterpart, nor worthy of being Heavyweight Champion, however, they accepted the challenge. The next couple of weeks on ShowDown, Sandvig repsond to Mane, stating that he had overcome a lot since becoming the WIW Heavyweight Champion and would shock the world and defeat Mane at Soul Survivor. On the November 2 episode of ShowDown, Hunter defeated Sandvig and Semmler in a triple threat match to win the WIW Heavyweight Champion, and be the new opponent for Mane at Soul Survivor.

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 against Heavyweight Champion, International Champion against United Nations Champion, World Women's Champion against Heavyweight Women's Champion, and World Tag Team Champions The Hoopers against Heavyweight Tag Team Champions. 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.

After announcing the Rage vs. ShowDown for Soul Survivor, Martin was interrupted by Eric Stevens, who wanted a International Championship match at Soul Survivor, Martin at first declined but was then confronted by International Champion Kevin McAlmond who agreed to put the title on the line against Stevens. Martin agreed, and told Stevens that if he wins, he'll face Eason at Soul Survivor, but if he doesn't win the title it would be his last title match until next year. McAlmond kepted his spot in the Soul Survivor match against United Nations Champion Elijah Eason by retaining the International Championship against Eric Stevens on the November 1 episode of Rage. That same episode McAlmond-Quinn retained the World Women's Championship against Victoria Lehr, keeping her in the Soul Survivor match-up against ShowDown's Heavyweight Women's Champion Beatrice LaGreca. The Larsons are scheduled to defend ShowDown's Heavyweight Tag Team Championship against Wright of Storm (Scott Wright and Harlan Storm) and Garett Joseph and Daniel Block in a triple threat tag team match on the November 9 episode of ShowDown. If they lose, the team that wins will face Rage's World Tag Team Champions The Hoopers at Soul Survivor.

As Rex Martin was about to announce the members for Team Rage's men's team on the October 25 episode of Rage, ShowDown General Manager Turf Finnegan with several male and female ShowDown wrestlers came through the crowd. A brawl between both brands began to tak eplace all through the arena with the men and women of ShowDown laying out the Rage locker room. The following night on ShowDown, ShowDown Commissioner Dixie Finnegan was surpised that Martin and members of the Rage brand did not invade ShowDown, but warned Turf that they would eventually show up for retribution. That same episode of ShowDown, Team ShowDown's men's team got it's first member when Brent Huntley qualified by defeating Tony Casiano. After a few weeks off, Rage Commissioner Glennda McAlmond returned to Rage, She said that ShowDown's invasion was an embarassment, but stated that Rage would not back down from War. She would also name Rex Martin the captain of Team Rage's men's team. Also that same episode, Dixie Finnegan appeared to apologize to Rex and Glennda, but she was attacked while in Martin's office, and was taken to a medical facility. Also on that same episode, Dixie appeared to apologize to Glennda, however, whole Dixie was alone in Glennda's office, the lights went out and she was announced by an unknown assalint and was taken to a medical facility. Afterwards on Rage, Martin announced Mad Hanson as his first pick for Team Raw. The following night on ShowDown, Turf announced himself as the captain of Team ShowDown and explained their invasion of Rage, while also explaining their invasion of Rage, stating that ShowDown had always been looked at as the inferior brand. He also said that Rage would pay for injuring Dixie Finnegan. Later that episode, Corbin Edwards and Jordan Keltz qualified for the team by defeating Daniel Mazurek and Joe Linderman, respectively, however Edwards was attacked by Revolution. It was later announced that, Edwards would be unable to compete at Soul Survivor. The final two spots were later decided when Charlie Lynch defeated Mazurek to qualify for the spot on ShowDown, as Rage's International Champion Kevin McAlmond and ShowDown's United Nations Champion Elijah Eason agreed to compete twice at Soul Survivor.

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. The following week, Richards said that Team ShowDown needed to be ready if Rage were to invade them. ShowDown's Heavyweight Women's Champion Beatrice interrupted and said it was unfortunate that she was not the captain, but would defeat Rage's World Women's Champion Brenah McAlmond-Quinn. She also said that Richards needed to find who the weak link was on their team.

At Raw's pay-per-view, TLC: X Chaos, Brian Tobol defeated defending champion, Ridge Blevins and Rick Pembroke in a triple threat match to recapture the WIW Dynamite Division Championship. Blevins invoked his championship rematch on the following episode of Dynamites Live, but Tobol retained after he was disqualified for hitting the referee. Blevins then attacked Tobol out of anger, hitting him with the Dynamites Title. The following week on Raw, Kalisto defeated Steven Clayton, who had Tobol and Gleason in his corner. After the match, Tobol and Gleason attacked Blevins with the Dynamites Title, but before any more damage could be done Pembroke chased Tobol and Gleason off, showing respect to Blevins. Another rematch between the two for the Dynamite Division Championship was scheduled for the Soul Survivor pre-show.

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• List of WIW pay-per-view events

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