- 02/08/2012 (4:01:20 pm)
- Bob Mulrenin
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Thanks to Devin
Rob Terry (AKA Robbie T) will be part of the NRW event at the Fun City Family Entertainment Center in Littleton, Colorado on February 17th, 2012. Go to
http://nrwrevolution.com for full info.Hulk Hogan's Micro Championship Wrestling will be holding an event at the 8 Seconds Saloon in Indianapolis, Indiana on March 30th, 2012. Go to
http://8secondssaloon.com for more info.Mark Haskins will be part of the ASW event at the Corn Exchange in Ipswich, England on February 10th, 2012.
Douglas Williams will be part of the ASW event at the Towngate Theatre in Basildon, England on February 26th, 2012.
Go to http://bigtimewrestlinguk.com for info about ASW
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Thanks to Mike Informer
http://fox8.com/2012/02/08/boy-battling-cancer-dreams-of-meeting-wrestlings-heros/
http://dailycaller.com/2012/02/07/the-rock-i-can-become-president/http://finance.yahoo.com/news/WWE-Signs-Deal-BALTIJOS-TV-bw-2940720958.html?x=0***************************************
K.S.W.A. Presents: Revenge
7:30 Saturday, February 18, 2012
Lawrenceville Moose
120 51st Street
Pittsburgh, PA 15201
Event Information Call
412-726-1762
Tickets $10 Adults & $8 Kids
A Message from Trapper Tom & KSWA Owner Bobby O -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCmiF4u_rv8- Main Event -
Lawrenceville Street Fight
The Latin Assassin & Mitch Napier
vs.
"Dr. Devastation" Lou Martin & Shawn Blanchard w/Frank Durso
The VIPs message to Mitch Napier & The Latin Assassin -
- K.S.W.A. Jr. Heavyweight Title Match -
K.S.W.A. Jr. Heavyweight Champion
Shane Starr
vs.
Drew Belanger
The Legion of the Apocalypse
Jonny Axx, Blood Beast, Bobby Badfingers & Ali Kaida w/Mayor Mystery
vs.
Jay Flash, Tony Johnson, Kris Kash & Jack Massacre
Mayor Mystery shares his words of advice about this match -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-aQFq6cD10&feature=relatedLord Zoltan
vs.
"The King" Del Douglas
Justin Sane
vs.
The Jester
"Nasty" Nick Crane
vs.
Dave Diamond
J.P. Goulet
vs.
Ric Rumskey
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!BANG! TV Report - Dory Funk Jr. on his Father, Dory Funk Sr.
My Father, Dory Funk Sr. was a 3 time state champion in amateur wrestling for Hammond, Indiana High School.
Dad started as a pro working the first match against the toughest wrestlers in the area. Dory Funk would take on all comers.
Dad's match was always on first and his pay was $ 10 per match. ($ 10 in 1937 is equal in purchasing power to $ 150 today. Not a bad payday for a beginning indie worker).
From across the state line in Chicago, Illinois, "The Mob" heard about this kid taking on all comers and sent their tough guy to let everyone know their street guy was tougher than any wrestler. Dory Funk made short work of their guy with his favorite hold, the Top Body Scissors and Cross face. Blood spurted from a broken nose and the referee stopped the match awarding it to Dory Funk.
One of the greatest legends of all time, Lou Thesz was working the main event that night. Years later, Lou told me one whole section was filled with "The Mob." After their guy's match was over, they all got up and walked out.
For more stories on the wrestling business visit
http://www.dory-funk.com .Dory Funk Jr. is coach of Funking Conservatory Wrestling and Trainer of WWE, TNA, NXT and Japanese wrestling talent."
Tickets to Saturday February 18th Support Your Troops 74, "Cold War" Headlining a "Last Woman Standing Match between Claudia "The Claw" Reiff and Hollywood Heather are now online at
http://www.dory-funk.com - or you can call 352-895-4658 for ticket information.If you would like to become a professional wrestler and appear on !BANG! TV, Call now 352-895-4548.
You can do this!
Have you decided this is your year?
Have you always felt different than your friends and family?
And your destiny is taking you down a different road,
A familiar road that is calling to you and will become your Life's passion and your goal is to find your achievement thru the path less taken.
Now is the time to accomplish your goals in pro wrestling.
Join today, call for information, fill out the application and get started with your career in pro-wrestling.
YOU CAN DO THIS!!!
Dory Funk Jr. Method of Pro-Wrestling" - Call now 352-895-4658
Website -
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CZWrestling.com - CZW World Heavyweight champion Scotty Vortekz, CZW Ultraviolent Underground champion MASADA, CZW World Junior Heavyweight champion Sami Callihan, CZW Wired TV champion Jake Crist, CZW owner DJ Hyde, Drake Younger, Niles Young, and Kimber Lee will appear at the Philadelphia Tattoo Arts Convention taking place Friday, February 10 to Sunday, February 12 at the Philadelphia Convention Center, 1101 Arch ST, in Philadelphia, PA.Check out the latest CZW merchandise on-hand at the Convention!
For more information on the Philadelphia Tattoo Arts Convention, visit TattooedKingpin.com.CZWrestling.com - Celebrate CZW '13th Anniversary' THIS SATURDAY, February 11 at the Virtua Flyer's Skate Zone, 601 Laurel Oak Road in Vorhees, NJ with a 7:30 pm bell time.
CZW owner DJ Hyde has a message for Saturday. He's tired of the crap and of the biggest thorn in his side, Sami Callihan! This Saturday, it will be Hyde vs. Callihan!
Also, some of the most heated rivalries in CZW collide...in a Six-Man Match as CZW Wired TV champion Jake Crist, AR Fox, & 'National of Intoxication' member Lucky team to face Dave Crist, Uhaa Nation, & 'Gulak Campaign for a Better CZW' member Mr. Tofiga!
Also featuring:
* CZW World Heavyweight champion Scotty Vortekz vs. Drew Gulak!
* In a match that will make CZW history! The first time meeting of Drake Younger and Adam Cole!
* As the Death Match Trial continues for Rory Mondo, he will face Danny Havoc!
* CZW World Tag champions Azrieal & Bandido, Jr. defend against the men who interfered in their match last month, The Runaways (Joe Gacy & Ryan Slater)
* Forget a match, IT'LL BE A FIGHT as Homicide takes on BLK JEEZ!
* #1 Contender Match: MASADA vs. Devon Moore vs. "Ego" Robert Anthony!
For Media Requests, Vendor Spaces, & Sponsorship Opportunities for CZW events contact [email protected].
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Missy’s Manor 1993 Pt 2
By the spring of 1993, Cactus Jack suffered many injuries by working an ultra stiff style against Vader that would put him on the shelves for months. Instead of capitalizing on the sympathy that Cactus was gaining, WCW would lose it by presenting a weekly segment in which Cactus Jack would lose his mind & a WCW reporter would search across the country for him. Ughhhh!!! Then the story line was dropped with the excuse that Cactus was playing mind games with Vader [WTF?]. Poor Mick Foley would culminate his feud by losing to Vader, due to Harley Race using a cattle prod on him. Whatever sympathy & momentum that Foley gained in the year was ultimately squandered by bad booking.
Ric Flair was kept on ice for so long in building up to his first match with Arn Anderson against The Hollywood Blondes at The Clash Of Champions. Flair did pretty well in his weekly “Flair For The Gold Segment”, but the house shows desperately needed Flair to bring back ticket sales. Flair’s return match with Arn Anderson against The Hollywood Blondes would garner a 2.6 rating, which was disappointing at the time. Instead of pointing fingers on how to correct the TV ratings & poor houses, the blame fell on Steve Austin & Brian Pillman for not being a hot enough act to pop the rating. Austin & Pillman would be broken up as a tag team & both of them would flounder, rather then WCW making plans to make them future franchise players.
WCW fell off the tracks after 4 years of revolving bookers, booking committees, steering committees, & management. The company never learned that the reason Jim Crockett Promotions was successful was based on being the alternative to WWE by having gritty & heart hitting wrestling with wrestlers that were personalities & not cartoon characters. Crockett also had compelling TV that didn’t insult the audience’s intelligence. WCW instead went the opposite track. There was one weekend of WCW programming that was so terrible that I totally gave up on the product and I never watched another WCW TV show for the rest of my life.
The episode had the infamous Beach Blast Mini Movie. Words can’t describe this piece of crap that was supposed to entice people to buy a PPV. Let me summarize the movie quickly. Sting and Davey Boy Smith are on a beach playing volley ball with children. Vader, Sid, Parker [in their wrestling gear], Harley Race, and Col Rob Parker take a military boat to come to the island. They offer Sting and Davey Boy Smith money to turn down the PPV match, the kids look depressed that their heroes might take Harley’s offer. They turn it down and the heels vow revenge.
A midget with a fin places a BOMB on Sting’s boat. Davey Boy Smith hauls ass to tackle Sting before the bomb goes off that destroys the boat. The end result the baby faces wants revenge.
Even Vince Russo couldn’t script this piece of crap. I strongly urge anybody that never seen it to check out the link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaOuntJq-y0To make the TV episode even more absurd, a Flair for The Gold interview segment would feature the heels. They discussed the mini movie as if it was real. The episode would also feature WCW reporter, Catherine White’s ongoing search for Cactus Jack.
Let’s forget that arena business, TV ratings, and PPV buy were in the crapper. I’m a big proponent for long term direction. WCW decided to map out four months worth of PPV line ups, story lines, title changes, and turns by taping all of their syndicated TV at Universal Studios in a three day marathon taping. This would lock WCW in to story lines, due to the TV being shot with little leeway in editing things that no longer make sense.
I’ll give you an example. To this day I have no idea in which this story line was going. I was managing The Nasty Boys [who were tag team champions, two months prior to winning the belts]. The Hollywood Blondes would interrupt every interview by courting me to be their manager. I have no idea on what was suppose to be the conclusion, since Pillman and Steve Austin were broken up as a tag team, despite being one of the only bright spots for WCW.
Another faux pas was WCW having to deal with the NWA interfering with WCW’s usage of the NWA title and NWA name. With TV taped so far in advance with NWA title changes, WCW had to re edit the announcing and not use the NWA name, instead WCW renamed it as the WCW International title.
WCW would also over saturate the PPV market with monthly shows that had the most dreadful undercards, since they were hiring wrestlers that were too green to be on the big stage in a cost cutting move to hire cheaper talent. Wrestlers like The Awesome Kongs, Cole Twins, Equalizer, Jungle Jim Steele, Charlie Norris, Thunder And Lightning, Big Sky, & others would fill up the undercards while a wrestler like Brian Pillman, Brad Armstrong, or Too Cold Scorpio would stay at home. Plus who could forget the greatness of Shock Master falling thru a wall on a Clash Of Champions with his tin foil Star Wars helmet falling off, while Ole Anderson is using his Black Scorpion voice.
WCW would also squander it by having future superstars fall thru the cracks by not being utilized & seeking fame elsewhere. Scotty Flamingo [Raven], Too Cold Scorpio, Robby V [Rob Van Dam] could had been more valuable in building up for the future.
The company mapped out Sid winning the WCW title from Vader at Starrcade, until Sid & Arn Anderson had their infamous hotel fight. The end result was after everything failing for WCW, the only thing that they could consider reliable was going back to Ric Flair. WCW spent years trying to find new successors, killing his aura as the champion by Flair never winning cleanly, and chasing him off to WWF. By the end of the year, WCW realized that Flair was the best thing going that day.
It’s rather sad that WCW & WWE were ignoring all of the new trends that were occurring in wrestling at the time. Paul Heyman was starting to come up with new innovations in wrestling with ECW. An edgier product at the time was what the industry needed when you consider that a fan that started out around the Hulkamania boom that started in 1984 was already becoming late teenager or adult. AAA was presenting house shows that was grossing more $$$ then most WWE & WCW house shows in California, yet they were considered a niche product. This was despite having national TV penetration & presenting a faster pace wrestling style that could had been a hit if it was marketed better to the non-spanish speaking wrestling fan.
I’m going to be signing on February, 11 @ Frank & Son 19649 E San Jose, City Of Industry, California 91748. The autograph signing will have myself, Roddy Piper [I’m psyched to see Piper, since I watched him on Georgia Championship Wrestling as a fan], Angelina Love [one of the hardest working women in the biz], Bobby Heenan, One Man Gang [big believer in UFO’s & alien abductions], Bobby Heenan, Debra, Tatanka, Jake Roberts, Bob Orton, & Tatanka. I always love discussing old school wrasslin & the current stuff, so stop by & say hi. You can get more information @
http://www.frankandsonshow.net/2012/01/wwe-wwf-autograph-signing-event-saturday-february-11th/“Embrace The Hate”
Missy Hyatt
1st. Lady Of Wrestling
[email protected]www.missyhyatt.net
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NEW TALENT ADDED TO THE EXTREME REUNION 4/28 PHILLY EVENT
It's official! The F.B.I. are coming to fight! The Full Blooded Italians of Little Guido and Tony Mamaluke are now officially committed to appearing on the Extreme Reunion card Saturday, April 28, 2012 in Philadelphia, PA at the Pennsylvania National Guard Armory Pennsylvania National Guard Armory 2700 Southampton Rd. & Roosevelt Blvd Philadelphia, PA 19154. Show starts 7pm eastern. Fan Fest 9am - 12noon. More talent announcements and match listings still to come... The FBI of Little Guido and Tony Mamaluke join Tracy Smothers, Shane Douglas, Raven, Sabu, Jerry Lynn, Rhino, The Original Gangstas New Jack & Mustafa, Al Snow w/Head, Justin Credible, Axl Rotten, and more to be announced for the 4/28 Extreme Reunion show in Philadelphia!
FAN FEST TICKETS NOW ON SALE
FAN FEST tickets are officially on sale for purchase on our site. If you have purchased a floor seat already (or will do so in the next week) you have qualified for a FREE Fan Fest ticket for every ticket purchased that will be mailed to you. This is the FINAL WEEK for FREE FAN FEST TICKETS!!! This is the last week for FREE Fan Fest tickets for all floor seats purchased.
Fan Fest TicketsAfter the special runs out, Fan Fest tickets will be available for separate purchase. Each ticket will admit you into the Fan Fest where you can meet and greet all the stars of Extreme Reunion. Autographs and pictures will be available at an additional charge. More info coming.
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