Hardcore Wars

The Hardcore Wars is a period of IFW history between 2004 and 2007. It involved a group of several wrestlers simply trying to outdo each other in hardcore and extreme matches.

History
There were several wrestlers involved, each with their own reasons for getting involved.

It started, almost inveitably, with Max Powers and Sado Masochis in a Steel Cage Weapons Match, all of which are pretty much instant classics. Looking on was Extreme Warfare, the self styled Hardcore Icon of the IFW, who decided after the match to challenge Sado Masochist to a Steel Cage Weapons Match of their own. This match was also of an extraordinary standard.

Meanwhile, Travis Doomsday and Ronnie Whiplash were fighting over various championships between themselves in a seperate storyline. Their storyline collided in late 2004 when they had a Steel Cage Match. During the match, Max Powers aided his tag team partner, Doomsday, by throwing a staple gun into the cage. He followed by throwing a chair in as well, turning it into a weapons match. Whiplash lost the match and challenged Powers to a grudge match, also in a Steel Cage, Powers accepted.

In the intervening weeks leading up the match, Doomsday and Powers repeatedly interfered in Whiplash' warmup matches - Whiplash responded by befriending Extreme Warfare, who came to his aid. The match at Apocalypse therefore turned into a Tornado Tag Steel Cage Match.

Damien Death got involved in mid-2005 after a series of steel cage matches with Sado Masochist. The two had been on and off again allies in the IFW, and these matches became a game of one upmanship between the two. It was essentially a mirror of what had already started the year with those already involved. During the next year or so, hardcore macthes of all types were had involving all or fewer of the protagonists.

For almost 18 months this was the state of affairs, however, towards the end of 2007 the Hardcore Wars eveolved into the Lost Apocalypse after Ronnie Whiplash got seriously injured, sidelining him for over a year. The other three paticipants in the match involved were Sado Masochist, Damien Death and Extreme Warfare, who appeared to be happy with this outcome... on the next Fright Night, the three came to the ring together, sporting some unusual garb and introduced Pig Demolition as their stable mate.