Ipw: Invincible

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Following the demise of Danger and Violence Extreme in 2007, American men have truly missed a wrestling promotion that was truly out for blood. Pittsburgh Steel Wrestling have tried to fill the void but something wasn’t quite the same, something was missing…

 

Fast forward to 2011 and former DAVE mainstay John “Nemesis” Campbell has been away from the Pro Wrestling scene since 2007 not even concerning himself with his son Ash when he made his debut in PSW. A chance encounter in 2010 with life long wrestling fan and highly successful rapper Winston “ Brother Grimm” Boe, everything was about to change for John. Boe a naturally gifted smooth talker and blessed with the gift of the gab met endlessly with Campbell about his vision for a brand new wrestling promotion based out of his nightclub The Warehouse, the club was the perfect venue for the would be company.

 

The Warehouse was already a popular nightspot for hundreds of Los Angelenos on the weekends, Brother Grimm was a smart enough man to known that South Los Angeles would be the stand out area for what would become Invincible Pro Wrestling, South LA embodied everything IPW would become, full of pissed off young men, suppressed by the higher powers and ready to fight at the drop of an hat.

 

Just one more thing was needed to set IPW on the way, Nemesis had the wrestling knowledge, Brother Grimm had the venue and the marketing know how, the missing ingredient was money, So along came Gil Thomas, Thomas was a multi-millionaire who made his money during the infamous wool war of the eighties, Gil was a keen wrestling fan who during the nineties invested his money in some small time wrestling companies on the west coast, though most of these promotions crumbled after a few months. IPW felt different like it was built on a solid foundation.

 

The three men would eventually come together June 2011 and what came out of the meeting was Invincible Pro Wrestling. After a solid first year in business cracks started to appear in what looked like an iron clad agreement between the three men. Grimm would walk out on the company taking several of IPW’s biggest stars with him and forming a new company Grimm SoCal Wrestling.

 

With Grimm gone so was The Warehouse, leaving IPW with no permanent home to host future shows. IPW played out the next year with it’s depleted roster performing in the back of dive bars and Charles E. Cheeze restaurants, barely scrapping by.

 

At the end of 2013 Gil pulled out worried he was about to lose more money in the wrestling business, leaving Nemesis to the running of IPW. Invincible Pro Wrestling looked like going out of business just as quick as it was started up. Campbell now well and truly back in the business and bitten by the bug once again wasn’t going to let this small blip stop him now. He’s first port of call was moving the promotion from Los Angeles to the original city of sin, Las Vegas.

 

Vegas had held wrestling shows before included The Piper Casino based Babes of Sin City. Though BOSC failed, Nemesis knew Las Vegas was the place to rebuild his promotion back up. Sin City had it all debauchery, gambling, beautiful women as well as being the birthplace of Mixed Martial Arts in the United States, Vegas was the perfect match for IPW it lived everything IPW portrayed.

 

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nice graphic, good write up, I hope to see you come back and continue this.