Double D (w/ Erica) def. Rage Logan to advance to the finals of the 2012 Impact Player of the Year Tournament
Team We Got This (Jermaine Johnson, Double D (w/ Erica) & IZW Tag Team Champions The Old School Suckas (Gary Tool & Randy Price) def. Team Brandon Bishop (Damon Windsor, Rage Logan, IZW Impact Division Champion Jordan Jacobs & IZW Champion Aaron Neil, w/ Brandon Bishop, Shawn McHale & Valeri)
May 12th, 2012 Coronation
iPPV Review
IZW “Coronation” delivered once again as Impact Zone Wrestling proved they have no peer in Independent wrestling. There was plenty of great wrestling, drama and the aftermath set IZW on a new path, a path led by Johnny Z!
In the main event, the tag team of Jermaine Johnson and the returning Johnny Z defeated Aaron “The Bronze Bull” Neil and Brandon Bishop in a hotly contested match. This was a hard hitting fight as Johnny Z was just as violent as ever as he leveled both Bishop and Neil. Johnson also seemed rejuvenated, as for the first time in months, he had even odds when he went to battle Impact Inc. Even in defeat, Bishop and Neil showed why they form a powerful force in IZW as the team gave as good as they got, but with the return of the “Natural Born Leader” and the future of IZW riding in the balance, Johnson and Z would not be denied on this night.
Johnny Z proved his knee was a 100% at one point delivering a leg drop from the top rope onto a helpless Bishop and if not for the cheating ways of Neil, who broke up the pinfall that would have been the end of the match. Next up was Johnson taking the hide off of Neil with blistering strikes as Neil was on dream street. But the champion would not go away easy as he turned the tide on Johnson, stifling his attack and then tagged in his partner Bishop. Bishop then went to work on Johnson landing a big elbow followed up by isolating Johnson’s left arm in an inverted armbar that came close to hyperextending the arm and getting the tapout. The final series came when Johnny Z tossed Bishop out of the ring and then countered a Neil attack by delivering a DDT to the IZW Champ. Johnny Z then landed a perfect Big Boot landing square in the face of Neil followed by an ES2 from Johnson incapacitating the Champion. That was enough, as Johnny Z then followed that up with a pinfall getting the 1-2-3 as the Impact Arena exploded in cheers and completely changing the hierarchy and foundations of IZW!
