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Strangle-Mania Live Tour
PromotionJuggalo Championshxt Wrestling
DateApril 14-May 5, 2000
CityNight 1: Denver, Colorado
Night 2: Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Night 3: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Night 4: Cleveland, Ohio
VenueNight 1: Fillmore Auditorium
Night 2: The Rave/Eagles Club
Night 3: Electric Factory
Night 4: Agora Theatre
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The Strangle-Mania Live tour was a multi-day professional wrestling tour produced by Juggalo Championshxt Wrestling (JCW). The tour took place on April 14, 2000 at the Fillmore Auditorium in Denver, Colorado, April 19, 2000 at the The Rave/Eagles Club in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, April 26, 2000 at the Electric Factory in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and May 5, 2000 at the Agora Theatre in Cleveland, Ohio. The shows in Cleveland and Milwaukee were both taped and were featured as part of JCW Volume 2 which was released on July 23, 2001 with the video charting as high as number 8 on the Billboard Sports and Recreation Top Sellers list.[1] This was also the second show to use the Strangle-Mania name.

Production

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Background

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On March 12, 1996, the Insane Clown Posse released a VHS tape titled ICP's Strangle-Mania, a compilation tape which featured matches from the Outrageously Violent Wrestling From Japan video collection overdubbed with commentary from the ICP themselves with Violent J (Joe Bruce) being called Diamond Donovan "3D" Douglas and Shaggy 2 Dope (Joe Utsler) being called Handsome Harley "Gweedo" Guestella.[2] The video also featured various matches from various IWA Japan shows including Cactus Jack vs. Shoji Nakamaki, Shoji Nakamaki vs. Hiroshi Ono, and Terry Funk vs. Cactus Jack at Kawasaki Dream, Kawasaki Dream, and Headhunter A vs. Headhunter B at All I Need ~A Chance For Me~, and Leatherface and Cactus Jack vs. Hiroshi Ono and Shoji Nakamaki at A Spring Breeze ~Condition Of Victory~, The success of the video would lead Bruce and Utsler to co-produce their own wrestling show with the Northern States Wrestling Alliance (NSWA) and booker Dan Curtis titled Strangle-Mania Live which was held at St. Andrews Hall in Detroit, Michigan.[3][4] The show featured the Insane Clown Posse themselves main eventing the show against the Chickenboys in a steel cage match.[5] On December 27, 1998, Insane Clown Posse would team up with Dan Curtis again to produce a show titled Hellfire Wrestling at the Majestic Theatre in Detroit which featured a 20 man battle royal for the Hellfire Championship as the main event. This was initially going to lead to an eighty-city Hellfire Wrestling tour, but two days after the show, Curtis had passed away in his apartment after a sudden diabetic problem.[6] The Hellfire Wrestling tour would be cancelled. A second VHS video tape titled ICP's Strangle-Mania Volume 2 would be released on August 4, 1999 which featured several bonus matches and would also feature Twiztid's Jamie Madrox as "Lucious" Johnny Stark on commentary.

On December 19, 1999 the Insane Clown Posse would team up with bookers Brian Gorie and Dave Prazak to hold the first "Juggalo Championshxt Wrestling" show which would be taped and be released as JCW Volume 1 on May 9, 2000 with commentary provided by the Insane Clown Posse as 3D and Gweedo and Madrox as Johnny Stark.[7] The show would be main evented by the Insane Clown Posse fighting team of two Doink the Clowns (played by Tarek The Great and Truth Martini) to become the inaugural JCW Tag Team Champions.[8] When the video was released, it lasted 38 weeks on the Billboard Sports and Recreation Top Sellers list with it charting as high as number 2 at one time.[9][10] However, Prazak would leave the promotion due to financial issues, leaving Gordie to book a 15-day Strangle-Mania Live tour from April to May 2000 with dates spanning from Detroit, Michigan to Denver, Colorado. JCW Volume 2 would be taped in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on April 19, 2000[11] and in Cleveland, Ohio on May 4, 2000.[12]

Storylines

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The Strangle-Mania Live Tour featured professional wrestling matches that involves different wrestlers from pre-existing scripted feuds and storylines. Wrestlers portrayed villains, heroes, or less distinguishable characters in scripted events that built tension and culminated in a wrestling match or series of matches.[13] Storylines were produced on Juggalo Championshxt Wrestling's various events.

Results

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Night 1 - April 14, 2000
No.Results[14]Stipulations
1Tarek The Doink defeated Izzy HighSingles match
2Billy Bill defeated Dick NippleDouble tables match
3Leatherface defeated Pat TanakaSingles match
4Uganda defeated Tom DubSingles match
5Kenji defeated Breyer WellingtonSingles match
62 Tuff Tony defeated Chuck HoganBarbed wire ladder match
7Mad Man Pondo defeated Fat Fuck Barrel BoyStop sign, staple gun, barbed wire, bat, thumbtack match
8Insane Clown Posse (Violent J and Shaggy 2 Dope) and DJ Willie B defeated The Rainbow Coalition (Big Flame, Bob, and Neil)Six man tag team match
Night 2 - April 19, 2000
No.Results[15]Stipulations
1Evil Dead and Insane Clown Posse (Shaggy 2 Dope and Violent J) defeated Big Flame, Bob, and NeilSix man tag team match
Night 3 - April 26, 2000
No.Results[16]Stipulations
1Tom Dub defeated Fat HillbillySingles match
2Pat Tanaka defeated N/A & N/ATwo on one handicap match
3Chuck Hogan defeated Cash FloBarbed wire ladder match
4Billy Bill defeated Dick NippleSingles match
5Mad Man Pondo defeated Fat Fuck Barrel BoyAIDS-infested thumbtack broken blass death match
6Insane Clown Posse (Shaggy 2 Dope and Violent J) and Vampiro defeated The Rainbow Coalition (Big Flame, Bob, and Neil)Six man tag team match
Night 4 - May 5, 2000
No.Results[17]Stipulations
1Hornswagglin' Hillbilly defeated Tom DubSingles match
2Hy-Zaya defeated Chris HeroSingles match
3Billy Bill defeated Dick NippleDouble table match
4Mad Man Pondo defeated Fat Fuck Barrel BoyDeath match
5Abdullah The Butcher defeated The Rude BoySteel cage match


References

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  1. ^ "Video Sales – Recreational Sports: Juggalo Championsh-t Wrestling: Vol.2". Billboard. March 31, 2001. Retrieved August 11, 2008.[dead link]
  2. ^ Bruce, Joseph; Hobey Echlin (August 2003). "Life on the Road". In Nathan Fostey (ed.). ICP: Behind the Paint (second ed.). Royal Oak, Michigan: Psychopathic Records. pp. 353–365. ISBN 0-9741846-0-8.
  3. ^ Bruce, Joseph; Hobey Echlin (August 2003). "Life on the Road". In Nathan Fostey (ed.). ICP: Behind the Paint (second ed.). Royal Oak, Michigan: Psychopathic Records. pp. 353–365. ISBN 0-9741846-0-8.
  4. ^ Klonowski, James (February 26, 2026). "25 Years of Lunacy: Why JCW Refuses to Die". Slam! Wrestling.
  5. ^ "NSWA/Psychopathic Stranglemania". Cagematch.
  6. ^ Bruce, Joseph; Hobey Echlin (August 2003). "Life on the Road". In Nathan Fostey (ed.). ICP: Behind the Paint (second ed.). Royal Oak, Michigan: Psychopathic Records. pp. 353–365. ISBN 0-9741846-0-8.
  7. ^ Insane Clown Posse (Wrestlers) (2000). Juggalo Championshxt Wrestling Volume 1 (DVD). Royal Oak, Michigan: Psychopathic Video. UPC 756504220092.
  8. ^ "JCW Volume 1". Cagematch.
  9. ^ "Video Sales – Recreational Sports: Juggalo Championsh-t Wrestling". Billboard. May 12, 2001. Retrieved August 11, 2008.[dead link]
  10. ^ "Video Sales – Recreational Sports: Juggalo Championsh-t Wrestling". Billboard. June 24, 2001. Retrieved August 11, 2008.[dead link]
  11. ^ "JCW Volume 2 - Tag 1". Cagematch.
  12. ^ "JCW Volume 2 - Tag 2". Cagematch.
  13. ^ Grabianowski, Ed (13 January 2006). "How Pro Wrestling Works". HowStuffWorks, Inc. Discovery Communications. Retrieved October 9, 2017.
  14. ^ "JCW Stranglemania Live - Opening Night". Cagematch. April 14, 2000.
  15. ^ "JCW Volume 2 - Tag 1". Cagematch.
  16. ^ "JCW StrangleMania Live Tour - Tag 2". Cagematch.
  17. ^ "JCW Volume 2 - Tag 2". Cagematch.
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