LPW Resurrection

Resurrection was a professional e-wrestling pay-per-view produced by Lords of Pain Wrestling (LPW), presented by its Insanity brand. The event took place at the Tokyo Dome in Tokyo, Japan during the 13.5 cycle on March 23, 2009. The event marked LPW's first appearance in Japan.

The event was booked by Wevv Mang, who won the Winner Takes All tournament at Honor Roll and was awarded to head both Insanity and Inferno pay-per-views. Notable for being an international traveler, Mang moved the event to Tokyo for a foreign-field-advantage when he challenged X for the LPW World Heavyweight Championship. X's manipulation of several stars came to fruition when Pen helped his cause, but it was Eddie B.'s interference that indirectly cost Mang the title when he superkicked the referee before Mang could be declared the winner. Frustrated by the turn of events, Mang was caught using a chair and was disqualified, thus culminating in a successful title defense for X.

In other notable matches, Ash Strife defeated cYnical in a Straight Jacket match, the MWA (RaTo and Tromboner Man) defeated Sudden Death (Black Ada and Son of Shockey) in an Iron Man Tag Team match to retain the LPW Undisputed World Tag Team Championship, The Rabbi defeated Pen to retain the LPW Transatlantic Championship, and Hatchet Ryda defeated Psych Ward teammates Blackwell and Andy Savana to retain the LPW Hardcore Championship.

Background
At Altered Reality IV, the Insanity brand was handily defeated by Inferno for brand supremacy, losing its "flagship" status for the first time. Wishing to re-establish its dominance after such an embarrassing series of defeats, Insanity was hopeful to resurrect the brand in the upcoming year. Things took a turn when LPW began to bleed money due to the global economic crisis of 2008. Forced to take immediate action, the Board of Directors hired a mysterious businessman known as The Boss to shore up company profits as its new CEO and Inferno General Manager. His first act was controversially appointing the inexperienced Little Red to be Insanity's new General Manager. The curious promotion of Little Red created much controversy, but The Boss reassured critics that she embodied everything that Insanity should stand for, and was confident that her outside-the-box thinking would resurrect the flagging brand. With a new regime in place, LPW re-drafted its entire roster between the promotion's two brands at Homecoming.

Fueled by her hated of cYnical's past manipulation of her and Krimson Mask into winning the LPW World Heavyweight Championship, Little Red booked X|X to face cYnical for the title at Honor Roll. Also at this time, Little Red and The Boss announced a tournament called Winner Takes All, in which the winner would be given full booking control over Insanity and Inferno's upcoming pay-per-views, entitled Resurrection and Take No Prisoners respectively. The final would be competed in a eight-man Four Corners Elimination match, in which Wevv Mang and Inferno's fast-rising rookie Eddie B. were favored to win.

At Honor Roll, Eddie approched Mang before their match and tried to appeal to Mang's business sense by offering himself as an insurance policy if one of them were to be eliminated in their match, just as long as he could get his hands on X at Resurrection. Eddie had been stalking X ever since he was eliminated by him at Redemption during their Inferno Seven match. Mang agreed to the offer, and would go on to Win It All after Eddie assisted Mang to last eliminate Mass Chaos. Later that night, X defeated cYnical to win the LPW World Heavyweight Championship.

With full booking control for the pay-per-view, Mang was now put in a difficult position. Should he go back on his word and challenge X for the LPW World Heavyweight Championship? Or should he give the opportunity to Eddie like he had agreed to? At the conclusion of Insanity LIVE from Waikiki Beach, Mang confronted X and announced that he would agree to his own word made years ago and challenge for the LPW World Heavyweight Championship against X. In addition, the notable international traveler Mang would move the event to Tokyo to give himself a home-away-from-home field advantage against X.

Event
Set in the Tokyo Dome, Resurrection opened with a large samurai-themed entrance where Flow performed their single "Rising Dragon" in front of 90,000 Japanese fans.

The first match of the night was a five-man Hardcore Gauntlet to determine the number one contender to the LPW Hardcore Championship. Shock was introduced first, and eliminated Kafu after hitting Lightning Strikes with a hockey stick. The third entrant in the match was Saint Steve, who received assistance from his Cult teammate Kafu in stuffing Communion wafers into the mouth of Shock. Upset about the unfair advantage, Joey Sosa came out early as the fourth entrant and evened the playing field. The Cult was able to fend off Sosa's help, with Saint Steve climbing the top turnbuckle to hit the finishing blow on Shock. But Sosa was able to trip Steve, where he fell into a Thunder Clap from Shock for his elimination. Fatigued from his previous bouts, Sosa was able to lock in the Babylon Lock to force Shock to submit. The final entrant was Killswitch, who came out with an elaborate Goldberg-like entrance with a Canadian Mountie escort. Towards the conclusion, Sosa had Killswitch in the Winged Bull, but Killswitch elbowed out of it and zapped Sosa with a cattle prod he pulled from one of his escorts. Killswitch pinned Sosa to earn his Hardcore Championship match.

The main event was booked by Wevv Mang, who won the Winner Takes All tournament at Honor Roll and was awarded to head both Insanity and Inferno pay-per-views. During the match, Inferno's Eddie B. interfered to get his hands on X for the first time since Redemption, but Eddie's interference prompted Mang to interject. Culminated from his past manipulation during the previous weeks, Pen came to X's aid while Eddie hit the Lowered Expectations superkick on the referee before Mang was a three-count away from winning the championship. Frustrated at losing control, Mang would use X's black steel chair and hit the champion, which the referee saw to disqualify the challenger and lead to X's victory.