International Wrestling Cartel is a promotion based out of Western Pennsylvania, created in 2001 off the heels of a hot promotion in the mid-1990s called Steel City Wrestling. Steel City was founded by Norm Connors and was one of the top promotions on the East Coast before closing in 2000. A year later, Norm would start the International Wrestling Cartel and used a lot of the same SCW stars as well the new generation of young and up and coming indy stars. IWC became a major player on the East Coast by running the Super Indy tournament, won by AJ Styles, Colt Cabana, and Chris Sabin.
In 2007, at their annual Christmastime event, A Call to Arms, a first time ever dream match between Samoa Joe and 2 Cold Scorpio took place. IWC hosted many dream matches over the years and they always delivered. As many great matches that both wrestlers have had, this is not one of them, unfortunately. I knew this match existed, however I never watched it and felt the need to post it. Sometimes dream matches sound great on paper but the execution just doesn't work out and this is an example of that.
Samoa Joe is still wrestling, appearing with AEW where he is currently the ROH Television Champion. 2 Cold Scorpio is continuing to wrestle for various independents including GCW and Black Label Pro.
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