Photo Gallery: Bayou Independent Wrestling’s “Ultimatum” in Vicksburg

Published 4:01 pm Sunday, March 17, 2024

Bayou Independent Wrestling returned to Vicksburg’s Ardis T. Williams City Auditorium on Saturday night with one of its biggest shows of the year.

All four of the promotion’s championships were featured on the five-match “Ultimatum” card, and the night ended with the tag team titles changing hands.

The team of Horsepower — Eddie Martinez and Nate Collins — defeated reigning champs Southern Royalty (Alex Arsenal and Jeremiah) and Muddy Waters (Gio Savage and RJW) in a three-way match to win the belts.

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In the opening match of the night, Deep South Heritage champion Rey Fury defended his belt for a record ninth consecutive time by pinning Ryan Rembrandt following an elbow drop off the top rope.

BIW Women’s champion Cassandra Golden also retained, after pinning Londyn Dior with her “Midas Touch”  finisher, a spinning fireman’s carry into a driver slam.

Bam Bam Malone, who won the BIW Southern Championship — the promotion’s biggest title — in Vicksburg last November, hit Barrett Brown with a running dropkick to keep the belt.

In the only non-title match of the evening, Rob Love beat Chase Stevens in a grudge match. Stevens initially pinned Love, but the match was restarted after referee Dave Miller discovered a chain Love had planted on Stevens. Love scored the pinfall moments later.

Bayou Independent Wrestling is a regional promotion based in Monroe, Louisiana, that holds about a dozen shows a year in Mississippi, Louisiana and Arkansas. This was its fourth show in Vicksburg in the past 13 months.

BIW’s next show is April 13 at the Lingo Center in Oak Grove, Louisiana.

About Ernest Bowker

Ernest Bowker is The Vicksburg Post's sports editor. He has been a member of The Vicksburg Post's sports staff since 1998, making him one of the longest-tenured reporters in the paper's 140-year history. The New Jersey native is a graduate of LSU. In his career, he has won more than 50 awards from the Mississippi Press Association and Associated Press for his coverage of local sports in Vicksburg.

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