 What's good jobs boy Ross back again with another video, so we're gonna check out the biggest wrestling degenerate man This should be an interesting one not sure Who it's specifically about but we're about to find out Yeah There are some degenerates in the wrestling community man a lot of them actually and not even just in the wrestling community Just in the world in general, so we're gonna check this out. See what's going on here This is by top 10 wrestling. Make sure you go subscribe to them. I'm already subscribed to them. They drop some definitely a Creative and well informative Wrestling related content, so make sure you go subscribe to a link to the original video will be down below Let's get right into this one. Recently I posted a video titled the death match wrestling degenerates and I got a lot of comments asking why I didn't include a man Named Ian Rotten now. I had no idea who Ian Rotten was but upon research I might have just found one of the biggest wrestling degenerates out there and He needs his own video today I'm gonna tell you all about Ian Rotten a former wrestler and founder of IWA Mid-South before we get into it though be sure to like and subscribe You do enjoy the video. I'll give you the count of three to do that That is not good at all. Let's get into the video Can't be out here scamming Ian Rotten debuted in 1990 and for the first couple years in his career Would wrestle mainly around the Maryland and Texas territories going by the name Johnny Lawler storyline son of Jerry the King Lawler he debuted for ECW in 1993 and his name was changed what we know it as today of Ian Rotten He was paired with Axel Rotten and they would go under the tag team name of the new breed Sorry, I'm literally recording it now and I've just realized it's the bad breed the new breed was like Elijah Burke's stable in WWE CW he wrestled an ECW until 1995 mainly used as a tag wrestler But towards the end of his ECW career was wrestling a few singles death matches and also began to make appearances for IWA Japan for shadowing he wrestled for more indies and for BJW in Japan before 1996 and after being fired from ECW Ian Rotten moved to Kentucky and in the year of 1996 He would found IW a mid-south a hardcore car crash indie promotion that mainly used old ECW guys And would run various death match events and matches They ran around the Kentucky area until the year 2000 when IW a mid-south moved to Indiana and the next decade for I'm laughing because man. I ain't gonna lie to you. I get it. It has this is niche It's like the wrestling community also has niche communities within the community, which is crazy As I've gotten older it's like I Don't know. Maybe I've gotten softer in that sense I don't know man. It's just something about seeing somebody, you know Purposely mutilate themselves for our entertainment. It's quite shocking But after a while you can get desensitized to it It's always crazy when you see something you don't see it often It has more of a lasting effect. So it just it's funny that this has always been a thing You know, it's always been part of that subgenre of wrestling. It's just crazy that you know That it is a thing like people love the car the death matches They love that the car crashes pretty much in a sense. IW a mid-south just some absolute craziness would go down The year 2000 saw Dave Prezac make numerous appearances as a manager for IW a mid-south And he was instrumental in bringing in top indie talent for the company Chris hero CM punk and his best friend Just to name a few it will be this year that Chris hero and CM punk had a 92 minute match Which is regarded as one of the greatest indie wrestling matches ever and yeah for the next decade IW a mid-south just did stuff like crazy The music doesn't match the violence. I love it Yeah, you know pretty pretty tame stuff Mid-south had really established themselves as a top indie promotion with a cult following They were running regular events and getting good talent But as you can guess things are soon gonna go tits up and in 2008 IW a mid-south would become subject to a police investigation IW a mid-south Queen of the Death matches 2008 a match was set to take place between Mickey Knuckles and Mike Levi And throughout the course of this match this match was just so Uncomfortable because Mickey was just delivering some stiff punches and weapon shots to Levi Throughout the entire match even shoot headbutting him to the point of there being a lump in her head She won the match and then afterwards this happened so that was the whole match, but Now get ready because this is the worst beatdown I've ever seen in wrestling history It is very violent. So I'm giving you a warning Tank and Devon Moore come out and decide they want to take some liberties on Mike for how he wasn't selling in the match Oh As if that wasn't enough Ian comes out and starts hitting him with a fucking crutch Even the owner's 12 year old son came out and started beating Mike with a stick So what you just saw there was Ian Rotten Wrestlers Devon Moore and Tank as well as Ian Rotten's pre-teen son who was now a wrestler known as JC Rotten Run out and shoot attack Mike Levi Levi at the time was still a rookie by the way this incident prompted the Indiana police to investigate and of course Major backlash Ian Rotten claims that he told Levi up front that he was gonna get a heavy beating and take an ass whooping Maybe not leaving him in a pulse of blood was what Levi expected, but nonetheless no charges were filed However, the next year IWA in Mid-South would announce that they would be seizing Operations following that Kings of the Crimson Mask show in August of 2000. Yeah Maybe there was something talked about. Hey, we're gonna do this or whatever, but holding someone Head against some ladders while someone steps on it It's wild hitting someone as hard as you can with crutches is wild having a son Hit them with a weapon as well. Can those stick whatever is wild? I'm just Very uncomfortable watching all that I was in the nine and following the show. That's what would happen It was the farewell show for IWA Mid-South Until November of that year when it was announced that IWA Mid-South wasn't closing down and would return with smaller budget shows So basically this is something that Ian Rotten did a lot He would announce that a show would be the company's last so that it would sell out quick And then you'd have the money to run more shows and pretty much just had zero intention of that show actually being the last the entire time Yeah, something he did frequently and you're about to hear more about it a year and a half later after its return in March 2011 It was announced again that IWA Mid-South would be closing down But yep, you guessed it IWA Mid-South returned three months later But this time they had returned under new ownership Ian Rotten was no longer promoting which is seemingly a step in the right direction for IWA Mid-South a good move for them But guess what? IWA announced that they were closing down again, and then in July of 2013 Ian Rotten announced that IWA Mid-South was back and that he was also back as the promoter of it all again What was actually the point and in case you're wondering IWA have not changed Going into the 2020s They were heavily criticised for running wrestling shows in the height of the pandemic with fans in attendance and no social distancing At the time when not even AEW and WWE were at the point of having fans in attendance yet Their world champion Jake Chris posted to Twitter just last year Demanding that Ian Rotten pay him in a statement and also posted a video of him burning his IWA belts that he currently holds IWA's response to this they cancelled all their upcoming events leaving them on a hiatus yet again Will they come back? known their history? Yeah, probably, but that's more or less the story of IWA Mid-South Hopefully so far, but as for Ian Rotten There's still more to discuss with this guy because once again this guy is just a degenerate So without further ado, here's a list of more things that Ian Rotten did. He's shot on other wrestlers Yes, Mike Levi wasn't the only one he did it to Peter be beautiful in 2001 in a match against him and did the same to Diehard Stephen Lee he allegedly has hepatitis C Which is very worrying as he blades and pretty much every match he does and bleeds profusely all over his opponents Oh, yeah, and speaking of shoots remember that Mickey Knuckles girl from before who was part of the Mike Levi match Well, she broke her leg on an IWA Mid-South show in a very gruesome moment It's probably one of IWA Mid-South's most watched and most well-known moments And it's also a moment that Rotten supposedly promised Knuckles. He wouldn't release and as you just heard me say Yeah, it's probably one of the most well-known IWA Mid-South clips of all time So, you know how that went generally Rotten is just a carney falsely advertising his shows Shooting on rookies using untrained wrestlers not paying wrestlers booking himself to go over people and beat people up he's just an overall scumbag he got wrestlers banned from various venues and Finally, perhaps the worst of it all is that Ian Rotten often worked with JC Bailey Who was a death match wrestler who tragically passed away in 2010 due to a brain aneurysm caused by his concussion history He had his problems with drugs and allegedly Ian Rotten was no help to this and used to pay him in Drugs to be on his shows. It's just pure scumbaggery, isn't it? Well, IWA Mid-South is probably gonna come back. Here's hoping Ian Rotten does not come back with them Yeah, nah, that's kind of messed up, bro. If the rumors are true Is is one of those things where it's like some people shouldn't be involved in the wrestling community especially when it comes to promoting setting up things trying to you know, you know Sell, you know tickets and just being a part of that all of that They shouldn't be a part of like some people try to take advantage and for you to go out there and legitimately shoot on someone a rookie and Legitimately probably gives them a concussion for whatever the reason is because you just feel like you have the power to and they're young They don't know anything or they're new to the wrestling biz. That's not cool. It's not cool I'm sure it happens in other Wrestling companies and well not just this one, but yeah, he's definitely From just from that just from that alone not really protecting your wrestlers, you know people that you hire or what not Not get it all man comment down below Let me know man. 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