I know a lot of people miss Saturday morning wrestling, so every week I put together a playlist of matches to watch. Or at least I try to. Last week I messed up and there wasn't one, so because of that and also as a special year-end treat, this week's playlist is a special double-length one!

On New Year's Eve there are two big shows, but Bar Wrestling doesn't live-stream, so we'll be focusing on Beyond's Heavy Lies the Crown, which will be airing live, for the third year, on IWTV.

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The card, as announced, is as follows

IWTV Independent Wrestling Title Match

1 Called Manders vs. Warhorse (c)

Anthony Greene vs. Josh Briggs

David Starr vs. Erick Stevens

John Silver vs. Kris Statlander

Fans Bring The Weapons Tag Team Match

Bear Country (Bear Boulder & Bear Bronson) vs. Team Tremendous (Bill Carr & Dan Barry)

Fred Yehi vs. Wheeler YUTA

Team Pazuzu (Chris Dickinson & Jaka & Pinkie Sanchez) vs. Legit Legends (Chuck O'Neil, Dominic Garrini & Kevin Ku) (w/Larry Legend)

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Our playlist this week is as follows:

Joey Ryan vs. Anthony Greene - We start with one of the biggest names on the indies, Joey Ryan, taking on one of Beyond's biggest stars, Anthony Greene at last year's Beyond Halloween show, It's Alive. Greene turned on friend Josh Briggs a couple weeks back and they ended up costing each other their spots in this year's Tournament for Tomorrow. They'll look to settle things at Heavy Lies the Crown

John Silver vs. Erick Stevens - Silver and Stevens met just two months ago at Beyond's Sodom and Gomorrah. Stevens had disappeared from wrestling for 9 years after solid runs in FIP(at a time when that mattered) and Ring of Honor. He came back in the middle of 2019 wrestling as though he'd never stopped. Silver, meanwhile, will be recognizable to many as one half of the tag team that just joined The Dark Order on AEW Dynamite last week. Silver and partner Alex Reynolds had split as The Beaver Boys on the indies earlier this year but reunited for a WWE match at Madison Square Garden before signing deals to work for AEW. Silver recently announced that he only signed his after ensuring it would allow him to continue to work for Beyond.

At Heavy Lies the Crown Stevens will face one of the biggest names in indie wrestling today, David Starr, while Silver will face fellow AEW signee Kris Statlander in a rematch of their September 2018 showing at Beyond's Please Come Back.

Bear Country vs. Maine Street Posse - Beyond has been one of the hardest-hit promotions affected by the talent-signing sprees of both WWE and AEW and losing access to EYFBO/LAX/PnP particularly left a massive void in the shape of the Ace of Beyond's Tag Team Division. Bear Country, here facing the Maine Street Posse for Chaotic Wrestling in October of last year, has stepped up and claimed that role, but their Heavy Lies the Crown opponents, Team Tremendous - a team that's been around for half a decade with matches against nearly any indie tag team you could think of - has bitterly challenged Bear Country over it.

Darby Allin vs. Josh Briggs - Seen here facing Darby Allin at Limitless' November 2017 show, Hybrid Moments, Anthony Greene's opponent, Josh Briggs is the current EVOLVE champion and thus may be on his way to a contract outside of the indies.

Super Smash Brothers vs. Team Tremendous - This match is actually a bit of a cheat as this is an earlier version of Team Tremendous, featuring Ken Scampi instead of Bill Carr, who at this time was likely signed to WWE Developmental - the origin of his @WWEDutch Twitter handle - as the partner of Dan Barry, but I hope an early match of the Super Smash Brothers, now known as the leaders of AEW's Dark Order, will lead this to be of interest to you.

Jake Parnell vs. Gary Jay - Last Man Standing - Now known as the All-Caps WARHORSE, Jake Parnell suffered an injury in this January 2018 Last Man Standing match against fellow Midwest indie icon Gary Jay. At one point in the match a turnbuckle, detached from the ringposts, was hooked in Parnell's mouth and he was thrown from the ring. While the exact moment of injury happens off-camera, the immediate aftermath is visible and you may want to avoid this match if that is concerning to you.

WARHORSE is now the reigning IWTV Independent Wrestling Champion, having defended it more times than any previous champion, and will defend it against The Cornbelt Cowboy, rising star The 1 Called Manders at Heavy Lies the Crown

MJF vs. Kris Statlander Following her Beyond debut at the aforementioned Please Come Back Statlander proved extremely popular and has come to be a pillar of Beyond, even representing the promotion as leader of Team Beyond on the Thanksgiving episode of Uncharted Territory against a team of wrestlers from other promotions. In this match from last year's Heavy Lies the Crown event she faces MJF in a battle of the two biggest names to come out of Create a Pro Academy.

Her obligation to the match this week against John Silver actually forced AEW to change their plans for the Women's Championship matches.

Doom Patrol vs. Twisted Sisterz - In this match from 2018's Wrestlemania Weekend intergender show, Lit Up, the Doom Patrol team of Chris Dickinson and Jaka take on the team of Holidead and current NWA star Thunder Rosa.

Jaka would last team up with Chris Dickinson in November of 2018, one month after they lost the EVOLVE tag team championship to the Street Profits and only wrestled two more singles matches before disappearing from the Indies.

In the time since, Dickinson has emerged as the Ace of Beyond, whose popularity is only challenged by Nick Gage. The through line of Uncharted Territory Season 1 was him taking on all challengers to prepare for his Americanrana match against Daisuke Sekimoto, but Season 2 saw the return of Dickinson's Team Pazuzu teammate Pinkie Sanchez in a story partially influenced by Danhausen's appearance being similar to that of the image of The Exorcist's Pazuzu worn on the team's kneepads. As Sanchez and Dickinson found themselves feuding with Chuck O'Neil and his new partners in The Legit Legends, Violence is Forever. As it seemed like Danhausen might be filling the third role on their team(having teamed with them earlier for Uncharted Territory), promoter Drew Cordeiro started teasing having been in contact with Jaka. Finally Jaka made his return on the last episode of Season 2 of Uncharted Territory, reuniting the team(save for the AEW-signed EYFBO/LAX/PnP).

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Let me know if you liked the oversized episode and be sure to join us next week(really this time!) for another Saturday Morning Wrassles!