The Southwestern Ontario indie scene in Canada is booming right now with the likes of Smash Wrestling, Border City Wrestling (BCW), Alpha-1 Wrestling, and Superkick’D, and you can add Mississauga’s Destiny World Wrestling as another promotion on that list. The promotion that works alongside former WWE Superstar Santino Marella‘s Battle Arts Academy has also worked with IMPACT Wrestling for several Twitch and One Night Only specials in the past year and now enters the iPPV game with it’s first ever pay per view on the Fite.tv app.
Robbie E vs. Stone Rockwell
A battle of a former IMPACT Wrestling star facing off against one of its newest. Former 2x IMPACT Tag Team Champion, IMPACT X-Division Champion and IMPACT Television Champion Robbie E makes his Destiny debut facing a Southwest indie veteran in Stone Rockwell…did anyone say “Adventure”? In other life, for nearly 15 years, Rockwell was better known as Asylum, part of Flatliners with Matt Burns, who terrorized Pennsylvania’s International Wrestling Cartel (IWC), Ring of Honor, Buffalo’s Empire State Wrestling and more. But then adventure came calling, and Stone Rockwell emerged from his home in Jones, Indiana to travel the world looking for…ADVENTURE! He’s had a few matches on IMPACT Twitch and One Night Only’s (with Destiny and BCW), as well as on IMPACT X-Plosion, as well as the host of his own show on IMPACT’s Twitch channel. It may not get 5 stars from Meltzer, but it will be entertaining.
Shotzi Blackheart vs. Seleziya Sparx
Seleziya Sparx has been wrestling on the Canadian indies since 2010, working with the likes of Smash Wrestling, Pure Wrestling Association (PWA), Great Canadian Wrestling (GCW) and more. The vet will be taking on one of the indie scene’s emerging stars in Shotzi Blackheart, who has been wrestling since 2015 but has really broken out in the past year. She’s already made her IMPACT debut, and made her mark in the past two years with the likes of SHIMMER, Shine, RISE and IWA Mid South, winning the Phoenix of RISE and IWA Mid South Women’s Championships.
Sammy Guevara vs. Aiden Prince
Sammy Guevara is on a roll in 2018, as the current reigning AAA World Cruiserweight Champion, competing in his second consecutive Pro Wrestling Guerrilla (PWG) Battle of Los Angeles, and making his way onto television with Major League Wrestling (MLW), Lucha Underground and IMPACT Wrestling. He’s also had break out performances with WrestleCircus and The Crash Lucha. He faces one of Southwestern Ontario’s best kept secrets in Aiden Prince, a student of Scott D’Amore‘s Can-Am Wrestling School in Windsor, Ontario that created such stars as Bobby Roode, Rhyno, Chris Sabin, KUSHIDA, Rosemary, and Moose. Aiden Prince is currently one half of the BCW Can-Am Tag Team Champions (as seen this past Friday on IMPACT One Night Only: BCW XXV) alongside another emerging Southwestern indie star in Brent Banks and recently faced former IMPACT World Heavyweight Champion Austin Aries for the belt on an episode of X-Plosion. At last year’s BCW Excellence 2017, Prince had the match of the night against WWE UK Champion Pete Dunne. This will be a high flyer dream match.
Teddy Hart vs. Channing Decker
For the past few years, Channing Decker has been better known as one of the guys in The Fraternity, a Toronto-based tag team that, alongside partner Trent Gibson), has been doing the circuit with BCW, Smash Wrestling, Ottawa’s C4, to Pennsylvania’s IWC, where they’re 3x IWC Tag Team Champions. But Decker is emerging as a legitimate singles competitor of late, and on Sunday he faces a Canadian icon of the indie revolution. Teddy Hart, of the legendary Hart Family, returns amidst a year of redemption that has seen him reclaim not only his passion for the industry but his legacy as one of the most innovative performers of the past two decades. He’s even back on television, leading a new Hart Foundation with MLW, alongside cousin Davey Boy Smith Jr. and young talent Brian Pillman Jr.
Destiny Interim World Championship Triple Threat: “The Walking Weapon” Josh Alexander vs. Rich Swann vs. Rey Fenix
With current Destiny World Champion Pete Dunne unable to defend his title due to contractual obligations with the WWE, Destiny has had an interim champion defending the title in his absence. At October’s Raising Hell, “The Walking Weapon” Josh Alexander defeated MLW World Champion Low Ki and Aiden Prince to win the interim championship, and on Sunday he defends that against two worthy international competitors. Rich Swann is one of IMPACT Wrestling’s breakout stars of 2018 and a former WWE Cruiserweight Champion. He’s also a part of MLW’s new talent for this year. The third man in the match is current reigning AAA Mega Champion and former Lucha Underground champion Rey Fenix, one half of The Lucha Brothers with Pentagon Jr. But Alexander is no rookie. He’s the reigning and 4x Alpha-1 Alpha Male Champion (Alpha-1 is run by his longtime tag partner Ethan Page) and he’s a former PWG World Tag Team partner in Monster Mafia with “All Ego” Ethan Page. Alexander isn’t as athletic as his partners, but he’s got size and strength and a legacy of brutality that should work to his advantage in grounding the high flyers.
