With all the plans finally in place, the TWF is proud to announce it's next overseas tour. With Outbreak and Widespread Panic huge successes over the last couple years, this year should be no different.
The event will take place in July and it is being called TWF Breakthrough: "Mi anillo es su anillo", which means my ring is your ring.
The event will take place in July and the major competition to take place will be that for the Nation's Cup, something that is going to become a TWF tradition. In the Nation's Cup, there will be four teams, one representing Japan, Mexico, RAW and PrimeTime with four superstars on each. 4 sudden death fatal four way matches will be held with one superstar from each team. The team that collects the most wins will win the Nation's Cup and have the honor of defending it next time. We feel this is a tremendous oppurtunity to compete with our two working partners, new Japan Pro Wrestling and AAA Mexico. But the kicker for this huge competition is the fact that the TWF has purchased a six sided ring and it will be used for these matches! The possibilities will be endless and the action will be non-stop! Here are the teams for the Nation's Cup:
Representing Team Mexico: Essa Rios, Psychosis, La Parka & Juventud Guerrera. They will be managed by Hector Garza.
Representing Team Japan: Yuji Nagata, Jushin Thunder Liger, Akio, & Hirohito(Kenzo Suzuki). They will be managed by Tatsumi Fujinami.
Representing Team RAW: "High Octane" Damion West, "The Show" Joe Corey, Christian and Austin Pyromania.
Representing Team PrimeTime: Jordan Rockwell, Shane Thompson, Rey Mysterio and Dylan Jansens.
And should there be a tie after the four way matches are complete, the two teams tied will each select one representative to compete in a one on one match.
Also on the card, Travis Wakeman will battle Octagon from AAA and Eddie Guerrero is slated to battle Scott Steiner. Plus, Chavo Guerrero meets Tajiri and there is scheduled to be a Lightheavyweight title match! There will also be a whole lot more!
Arena Monterrey, which seats 18,000, will host this huge event in Monterrey, Mexico and tickets are already sold out. American fans will be able to catch the event at TWF.com on streaming video for a low cost! Who will bring home the Nation's Cup? You gotta tune in to find out!
SMW SPOTLIGHT This month, the developmental spotlight shines down on the stellar tag team of the Diamond Express. Jake Diamond:
hgt: 6'4"
wgt: 243lbs
age: 25
Hometown: Memphis, Tennessee
finishers: Southern justice & The Blues Shaker Dylan Page:
hgt: 6'5"
wgt: 247 lbs
age: 26
Hometown: Memphis, Tennessee
Finishers: Death Valley Driver & The Tennessee Plunge
Titles held: SMW tag team championship (2x)
bio: Considered to be the greatest tag team in SMW history, Jake and Dylan have been best friends since the ages of 5 and 6. These two, who are sons of legends, Jake of the Honky Tonk Man and Dylan of Robert Fuller, have it in their blood to be wrestlers and they live up to those expectaions. As two time SMW tag team champions, they set the standard for what real tag teams are supposed to be.
TURN BACK THE TWF CLOCK...... On June 28, 2000, just 2 days before the TWF went online, it held it's last PPV offline.... and it was one of it's best. King of the Ring 2000, an event returning this year, was a huge extravaganza! Billed "Royal Execution", this event featured some huge matches including Trish Stratus challenging Jessica Lopez for the Women's title and a great Intercontinental title match between Val Venis and the World's Most Dangerous Man, Ken Shamrock. The main event was called the "King of Kings" match, pitting King Mabel against Travis Wakeman for the TWF World title, one of Wakeman's many PPV victories. But the story leading up to and during the event was the King of the Ring tournament itself. In the weeks leading up to KOTR, qualification & 1st round matches were held on RAW and PrimeTime. It started with 31 men and one woman, Chyna and there were some great matches in the qualifying round, the most interesting between the aforementioned Chyna and Shane McMahon. After taking Chyna's best stuff, the Boy Wonder advanced. Other matches saw Adam Bomb surprise Kurt Angle and a man named Masato Tanaka knock Eddie Guerrero out. On to the 1st round we went and this time, Shane McMahon got by the ultra tough Tazz. Adam Bomb and Tanaka got by again, defeating The Road Dogg and Mark Henry respectively. It was down to the final 8 with the rest of the matches to be held at the PPV itself. The final 8 consisted of Shane-O-Mac, The Godfather, Adam Bomb, Weapon R, X-Pac, Tanaka, Chris Jericho and Mideon. Shockingly, Shane defeated Godfather in under 5 minutes with a school boy and almost as startling, Weapon R, a Lightheavyweight throughout his career, found a way to knock out Adam Bomb. X-Pac got by Tanaka with the X-Factor and Y2J won an excellent match over Mideon with the "Walls of Jericho". Onto the semi-finals and the winning ways of Shane did not end there as he took a beating from Weapon R and hung tough. He ended up putting on a submission move in which he pulled Weapon R's head very awkwardly and actually made him tap out. In the other semi-final, Y2J got by X-Pac after countering the X-Factor and placing him in the Walls of Jericho to win it. Both Y2J and Shane went into the finals, exhausted. But they gave it everything they had in a classic encounter. But after avoiding a springboard dropkick and seeing Jericho land gingerly, Shane took him down with a chop block and then slapped on the same submission hold he beat Weapon R with. Mike Chioda got no response from Jericho after 2 minutes and had no choice but to ring the bell and award the match and the 2000 King of the Ring crown to Shane McMahon, still one of the great upsets of all time.
