It’s about time that I dust this off once again. I have to apologize really, my 2025 has been all over the place and while I meant to do more with this I earnestly kinda forgot about the blog for a while. That’s on me, that’s my fault. I plan on doing more with this blog whenever I can, especially as I actually do the thing I've been meaning to do for ages and put more focus on wrestling for my now-main YouTube channel. I wanna try and actually get at least one or two videos out on my YouTube before the year ends (because to be honest with my mental health, this year's probably a wash in terms of content), and then hopefully in 2026 I'll be able to really lock in I guess.
Anyways, it’s time for me to introduce a new project.
I’ll be completely honest in saying that I don’t really know a terribly massive amount about IWA Mid-South, a lot of my experience comes from the latter half of the promotion’s existence (2020-2022) which includes the moment where Jake Crist burned their World and Light Heavyweight Championships due to multiple instances of not getting paid by Ian Rotten, that also led to IWA hopefully ceasing operations for good, and in general learning about a lot of the various other incidents that have happened over the years that i’m not really go over here, (Really, with how infamous Ian is, it would probably take a simple Google search to find at least most of them) PLUS some various matches sprinkled in such as Eddie Kingston vs. Chris Hero from 2007 which is quite honestly one of my favorite matches of all time. So, because I have severe problems and I love turning anything at all possible into content, I've decided to start a project I'm currently calling The Rotten Archives. The name is a work in progress, obviously, but is inspired partially by snowboiiii’s 2005 watchproject where he watched every single wrestling show that occurred in the year 2005, and also by @MarilynOfDeath who is watching every CZW show ever. I also want to give a quick shoutout to Tom Green for his video on the 2004 Ted Petty Invitational (which you should check out, he’s really cool) as that was part of the inspiration for why I went with IWA. I will choose a completely random year of IWA:MS to watch and review every single show that has made tape that I can even FIND, talking about what I do and don’t enjoy from it in hopes of… well, to be honest, I don’t really have much of a goal with this. I guess you could say to fully understand the “lore” and “mythos” around IWA Mid South, but honestly I thought it would be funny to do this one night and it’s stuck around in my brain like a mildly catchy song. I’m still really trying to figure out how I'm gonna format this, there’s a high possibility that once I finish a year I might make a big YouTube video compiling everything within the year and talking about it but it really depends on how I'm personally feeling. There’s also a high chance that I could expand this into other indy companies if I get bored of just doing IWA:MS, hence why the title isn’t an “official” one. Hell, everything’s kinda just a complete crapshoot work in progress and I won’t fully know what I'm doing till I really get into the whole meat and bones of it, soooo…. I mean, I dunno, I hope you guys can understand?
To decide WHAT year I’ll exactly be watching I put a bunch of years that were available on the “Sugiura Holdman” VK channel (IWTV does not have a complete archive, I also do not have IWTV currently) on a wheel and spun to find out that i’ll first be watching 2005. A year featuring both a mildly interesting TPI lineup (some of the members pictured above) AND an interesting KOTDM lineup, AND Samoa Joe vs. Necro Butcher, AND a War Games match from the vague look I had on Cagematch! It’s honestly probably not the WORST choice I could’ve gotten? I will begin this project very soon, in the next couple of days and posting updates alongside hopefully gifs/clips of my watchthrough progress on Twitter and Bluesky (@emmosWRLD/@emmosfunnywrld respectively).
There's a total of four shows in January 05, most of them being over two hours so i'm gonna have a crapload on my plate. I hope you guys will be as entertained as I will be with this. Hopefully I'll have the fuller details of what ENTIRELY I wanna achieve with this soon.
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