<10/23/13 @ 2:13 AM PST>

- Season 3 is DONE. Let's talk about it. First off, if you haven't already, WATCH SEASON 3. It's right here in the Media section. Go ahead and watch, we'll wait....... Done? Good. So first up, we had our first three episodes of the season covering ISUXDIX's trip to upstate New York for the show of the summer, NYE3 presented by NEW ERA. Credit to Daniel Makabe for getting the wheels in motion on this trip. One moment he's watching Kazushi Sakuraba and Katsuyori Shibata invade New Japan, and the next he's saying to himself, "Hey, I want to do that," and organizing the troops to get to New York. What's actually quite remarkable about this trip is that, even when we were running almost weekly and flying to multiple supershows a year, we NEVER had a group of 6 fly to one show before (previous bests were 5 people for both BYE6 and BYWeek), but this one we somehow did. Maybe it's the fact that we're actually wrestling less these days that made the trip more enticing. Whatever the reason, it worked out, and Daniel Makabe, Yakuza J, Scott Henson, Drew Sarian, Kaden Talbain, and Mercury all found themselves in New York the weekend of June 14. ISUXDIX (or DIX-1 International, ISUXDIX's touring company) made its presence felt right off the bat at the show, interfering in Mercury vs. Marcus Centofante for the NEW ERA Title, and taking out Centofante, setting up the main event of Day 3, which would be Scott Henson, Daniel Makabe, and Yakuza J taking on Marcus Centofante, Crucible Chris Ambros, and J-2Step (collectively known as KWCD). In between those matches, there were many other excellent matches involving DIX-1 members: Fur & Loathing successfully defended the ISUXDIX Tag Titles against Zayne & Brad Rush ("Feeling 22"); Drew Sarian successfully defended the ISUXDIX World Title against Ryan Brodie, debuting his new Lion Tamer; Yakuza J defeated The Perfection in a battle of the monsters; Daniel Makabe defeated MX5, debuting his new Armtrap German Suplex; Mercury loss to 2005 Chris Frank in DIX-1's only loss before Day 3 (though you could argue this match happened in 2005 so it doesn't count); Kaden Talbain won a spectacular match over Marky Lectric, utilizing every crazy power move he's ever thought up; Scott Henson & Daniel Makabe teamed to defeat G-Fatal and GBYWN World Champion Matt Demorest, again with Makabe's new Armtrap German; Mercury won a 4-Way over Tommy Flambeau, Doc Holiday, and Murph; Yakuza J teamed up with Phoenix to form MadStyle who lost by DQ to Robby Roberts and Sean O'Mora (though their opponents looked the worse for wear); Kaden Talbain fell to Marky Lectric on Day 3 in an unprecedented supershow rematch, and that brings us to the main event of Day 3. Henson, Makabe, and Yakuza have tried to team as a trio twice before. The first time was in England and Daniel Makabe fractured vertebrae and the match was stopped. The second time was at ISUXDIX Dreamslam and Ruzty injured his leg and the match was stopped before everyone had even entered in the War Games style match. So the fact this match even had a finish is a victory in itself. But the bigger victory is that the match was, in fact, great, and it saw the hometown team of KWCD getting the big win with Marcus Centofante pinning Scott Henson after a war between the two. Congratulations to Centofante & Co. not only for the victory, but for putting on probably the best ring base show we've ever been to.
- That brings us to what comprised episodes 304 to 307: ISUXDIX Big Dick Wrestling Universe 2. First off, thanks so much to Alex McConnell, Chris Goodwin, Dan Van Virtigo, Domi, Phoenix, Jonathan Hitler, and Wrenegade for flying in, and the Washington and Chilliwack contingents for making the drive. Wouldn't have been a show without you guys. The show was held over July 12 & 13, coincidentally Scott Henson's 30th birthday weekend. And he decided his birthday present to himself would be to win the ISUXDIX Title from Drew Sarian the night before his birthday. This didn't work out too well for him, as Sarian dominated and looked to have the pin on Henson, but Henson's partner Kaden Talbain ran in for the disqualification. Domi, who had defeated Talbain in the opening match but was attacked by both Henson and Talbain post-match, ran in to even the odds, and an impromptu tag match was made, with Fur & Loathing putting their Tag Titles on the line against Sarian's World Title. The finish came with no title change, however, as Henson pinned Domi for the win. There was still one way Henson could have a happy birthday, though, and that was Kaden Talbain challenging for and winning the title from Sarian on Day 2. In that match, Sarian again looked to have things won with the Lion Tamer, but Henson distracted the ref, threw in the title belt which Talbain nailed Sarian with behind the ref's back, and three seconds later Sarian's nearly 18-month title reign was over and Kaden Talbain was the first ever two-time ISUXDIX World Champion. The show looked to end on a sour note until Daniel Makabe came out, coming off big wins over Jonathan Hitler and Chris Goodwin. Makabe said that Talbain was going to have to defend that title against him sometime, so he mights as well do it now. Kaden refused, backing out of the ring. However, with Makabe's back turned, Talbain ran back in and hit Makabe from behind, demanding the ref ring the bell and saying that this was going to be Makabe's one and only shot. Talbain hit the Darkness Buster immediately, but somehow Makabe kicked out. Makabe was able to recover, went for Jumbo Tsuruta Fuck You, Talbain cut back on it, but Makabe was able to roll through THAT pin attempt into his own, and we had our second new champion in a matter of minutes. This is Makabe's first ISUXDIX title win, but his fifth VCW/ISUXDIX World Title overall, which is the record (Kaden Talbain is second with 4, and Scott Henson and Yakuza J are tied with 3). Other notable matches on the show were Mercury and Dan Van Virtigo going to a draw for DVV's RCWA Internet TV Title, MadStyle of Yakuza J and Phoenix getting DQ'ed against McGoodwin of Alex McConnell and Chris Goodwin, Daniel Makabe defeating Jonathan Hitler in a rematch 7 years removed from their BYF9 encounter, Yakuza J and Daniel Makabe reforming the Bubble Tea Mafia to defeat the rookie team of Zaykan and RTD, Domi defeating Jonathan Hitler, Alex McConnell KILLING ZEUS MCFLY DEAD with a Pyramid Driver off the stage through open chairs in their Street Fight a year in the making, Daniel Makabe defeating Chris Goodwin in a good-should-have-been-great match when Chris Goodwin was injured by a Trapper Keeper, and Kaden Talbain presenting Scott Henson with the birthday present of LENNY D making his return after 4 years to team and take on MadStyle. 
- If you read the post below this one, you'll see we announced 7 episodes for Season 3. And yet there's an episode 308 right there in the Media section. Why the discrepancy? Well, we didn't know we'd be travelling some more. Upstart Seattle promotion 3-2-1 Battle featuring many of your favourite BXCW stars ran its first major show in Seattle in September, and Scott Henson and Drew Sarian were there. We'd have had more representation there, but with Daniel Makabe out of town, Kaden Talbain in the hospital, and Zeus McFly just generally a weirdo, things didn't line up. Nevertheless, Scott Henson saw this show as a stage to take out his frustrations on Drew Sarian in front of 150 rowdy fans for not being able to win the title from him in July. Sarian was having none of this, however, and wrestled perhaps the best match of his life, submitting Henson with the Lion Tamer, now permanently renamed the Tiger Tamer, appropriately. That wasn't all, as Henson and Sarian flew to Tennessee (on separate planes of course) to compete at Galaxy Pro Wrestling's first show, promoted by none other than Rigor Mortis. Henson teamed with Chicago native Chris Castro to form Team Cat-Castrophe to take on the Kentucky based OG Screw Crew (Brad Rush and Matt Revel a.k.a. MX5) and UK superstars Mark Andrews and Pete Dunne in a 3-way tag, with the Kentuckians getting the pin on the Brits. Drew Sarian took on Davey Vega, better known in some circles as Dangerous Dave Devereaux, falling to a Sharpshooter by Vega. Big thanks to Rigor for running the show and hosting the guests. Same goes to Joe Gonad.
- And perhaps one of the most compelling stories of Season 3 had nothing to do with the wrestling shows, but the episode introductions before each show. Even if you hate our wrestling, watch these intros, because they're great. Things started out harmless enough, with Daniel Makabe doing the first two intros as per usual. Then Scott Henson hijacked the camera while Daniel Makabe was on a tea break so he could do an intro himself. However, this tea break lasted longer than anyone expected and Makabe wasn't back for the next episode, or the next episode. A worried Scott Henson eventually resigned himself to the fact that Daniel was gone and held auditions for a new intro person to no avail. Makabe showed up soaking wet at Henson's door in the middle of the night in the season finale, with the explanation of his absence being eerily reminiscent of the recent series finales of Dexter and Breaking Bad, but at any rate, we're glad he's back.
- LOOKING AHEAD: what do we have? Well, we're pleased to announce that 3-2-1 Battle will be running their shows monthly starting in January, and you can expect ISUXDIX to be at just about all of them. As for locally, we'll see if anything's going on, but no promises. One thing we can *almost* promise is that there will be a Big Dick Wrestling Universe 3, and that it will probably be Labour Day Weekend 2014.



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