Monday, September 25, 2017

One More HOB Wrestling show (Now I'm all caught up)

HoB Turnbuckle TV
Season 2
Episode 27

On this week's episode of House Of Bricks Pro Wrestling #TurnbuckleTV, two standouts of New England Professional Wrestling lock up for the FIRST TIME EVER inside the squared circle as Teddy Goodz takes on Anthony Stone in a one on one match. Prior to the contest, "Journalism" Joe Rebelo catches up with one of the athletes and gets their comments on the upcoming match!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ed85tthvaI

More House Of Bricks Wrestling.

HoB Turnbuckle TV
Season 2
Episode 26

On this week's episode of House Of Bricks Pro Wrestling #TurnbuckleTV, it is #TagTeamThursday this week on #TurnbuckleTV. In our opening contest, it is the team of Mon Ster Mack and Trainee No. 1, #MackAttack taking on the team of Eric Dylan and Mike Montero, The Toxic Twins. And in our #MainEvent this week, the #HouseOfBricks #TagTeam Championships are on the line as current #HoB Tag Team Champions, Steven L Ust & Steven Broad Middlesex Express, defend against "Wildside" Devin Baker & Zach "The Hammer" Ramos", The WildHammers. All this and MUCH MORE on this week's episode of #TurnbuckleTV!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPgWSDQ82o4

House Of Bricks Wrestling (From the state of Mass.)

While others are watching that WWE crapola. I'm going to catch up, and post the last three weeks of House of Bricks Wrestling.

HoB Turnbuckle TV
Season 2
Episode 25

On this week's episode of House Of Bricks Pro Wrestling #TurnbuckleTV #HouseOfBricks brings you more action from this past #Brickaversary as we open up this week with a TRIPLE THREAT MATCH between "The Avarice" Derrick Conway, Donald Rotten, and Jammin Jack Conner with the winner become the number one contender for the #HoB #SouthernNewEngland Championship. And speaking of the Southern New England Champion, the title is ON THE LINE in our main event this week as current champion, El Poncho Ayala with his manager, Kenny B Dunne, defends against Sully Banger. Two big matchups plus MUCH MORE on this week's episode of #TurnbuckleTV!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wd8d4ZerzTg

I remember Donald Rotten from a stint in the Eastern Wrestling Alliance.

New Rocky Mountain Pro Wrestling show

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mleh0j4_48&t=2690s

I watched the first season of this where Vince Russo had an on screen role and believe it or not. he wasn't as over bearing as he was in WCW and TNA. I also found the storylines and matches appealing. So much so that I'm hooked into it every week which is how solid and consistent they've been with the booking.

The only gripes I've had with this company is, Unholy Trinity looks like such a Rosemary (GFW/Impact Wrestling) knock off it's obvious. And up until this show, Humphrey Hacobs was going under "King of Old Style" which was such a blatent rip off of Steve Corino's King of Old School Gimmick it was too obvious. I actually have mentioned these facts in comments on their YouTube channel and no this week? No mention of the 'King of Old Style'. handle. Coincidence? :)

Videos of New England Indy groups I worked for (Part 3)

This is a highlight package of the Eastern Wrestling Alliance when they were based in Maine. Included are clips from a show of theirs I locally promoted at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire back in 1999  (main event was Steve Keirn vs The Mountie Rougeau), along with clips from shows in Lewiston, Maine, Oxford, Maine, Farmington, Maine and more.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMuMX9RBh-E

The Above clip shows Dangerous Dave Vicious, Kid USA, Damon D'ArcAngelo, Dr. Everette Paine, Tag Team The Damned, Master Sandy, Frankie Armadillo and more Including Precious Lucy, who now goes under the name LuFisto. At about the 5 minute 20 second mark you'll see me at ringside having words with Frankie Armadillo.

Matches from Indy Groups I worked for (Part 2)

 Fred Sciulli promoted WWE Dojo / WWA World Wrestling Alliance New England bout. Pro wrestling show at the Salem Massachusetts High School in 1998. Steve Perkins commentates with color commentator Matthew Leahy Scott Taylor vs Barry Houston.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjMD0-1E3iI&t=53s

Walter Killer Kowalski trained Senior Referee Richard Lannon officiates this Fred Sciulli promoted WWE Dojo / WWA World Wrestling Alliance bout. Steve Perkins commentates with color commentator Matthew Leahy at this pro wrestling show at the Salem Massachusetts High School ( 1998)

 Matt and Jeff Hardy vs Christian Cage and Shawn Stasiak

WWE Dojo / WWA World Wrestling Alliance pro wrestling show at the Salem Massachusetts High School. Steve Perkins commentates with color commentator Matthew Leahy. Referee Rich Wood officiates this match.

Beautiful Brittany Brown vs Brandi Alexander  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1A4XvXLEyU

Videos from New England Indies I worked part 1.

In my debut post for this blog I explained how I worked for three different indy wrestling groups in new England when I lived in new Hampshire. From 1997-2000. Here's some of the stuff from back then.

This match from Manchester, NH 1997 has two parts. First part here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzTmNfqQe2M&t=102s has manager Christopher Grande, verbally kicking my ass before the match.

Here's part two. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ho-9nxAVxIM&t=14s

Then there's this match from same place in Manchester, NH (St. Cecelia's Hall) that has the future Prince Albert/Giant Bernard (also Baldo in Memphis Matt Bloom in it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=124gxyPCBbc

This one comes from Atlantic Wrestling show in Nashua, New Hampshire (Sousa dared to run in rival promoter Jeff Costa's town). King Kong Bundy gives me a verbal ass kicking. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_52zxiL-yeo

And here this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vaOGjwsFFNk&t=2s is from the Middle School in Rochester, New Hampshire. Show I locally promoted. Matt Bloom and Rick Fuller (who was also appearing on WCW Nitro and Thunder as well) are on this along with the late Walter 'Killer' Kowalski.

More to come. :)

Jim Cornette on Bert Prentice & Spitting in Ed Ferrara's Face

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOiGyJg_XEw

Cornette on Russo's WCW Legacy.

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Cornette on feuding with Heyman's Midnight Express

https://youtu.be/Pm-Fu4tyhXg

National Wrestling Alliance 2017 update

The link is from PWInsider and believe me, as a fan of the NWA dating back to the old territory days of Florida, Pacific Northwest, etc. THIS is a bad move by Billy Corgan in my opinion. Not renewing the licenses for the indy groups under the NWA Banner (and thus making these groups change their name because of it) takes away a lot of what the NWA was and still COULD BE.

https://www.pwinsider.com/article/112497/national-wrestling-alliance-ownership-updates.html?p=1

For anyone who wants to say the NWA name is dead? I can easily say (before this little move/swerve by Corgan) BULLSHIT! I'd say watch this. https://www.amazon.com/History-Tradition-National-Wrestling-Alliance/dp/B008NDKX2Q  Which I have. You'd see how the tradition was very much being kept alive. I myself have watched shows of NWA Supreme (out of Indiana) which really entertained me. NWA New South (which now because of Corgan not renewing NWA Licenses has changed their name to American Wrestling Alliance and they still run shows every week at the New South Arena in Franklin, Kentucky every week), NWA Blue Collar which was running in Washington State and had guys like Kevin Sullivan on it, NWA Smokey Mountain (which changed their name to Innovative Wrestling) ALL proudly carrying the NWA brand with them.

But now that's about to change and I really believe this is a bad move by Corgan. if you really want the NWA to be a top name again in Wrestling you would've kept these promotions under the banner. That way it's an established territory of groups and a lot of various talent could be gotten from them. But if Corgan is thinking of trying to be like Jim Crockett Promotions with his vision of the NWA, just remember what happened to Jim Crockett Promotions. They sold out cause they expanded way past their means(everything past Chicago going west put the nails in the coffin).

Now Corgan owns the Bob Luce Library, which for me is a god learning ground of how to keep a profitable wrestling company going. For the longest time they just stayed in Indiana and occasionally ran shows in Chicago. As well as built to 'big' shows at the Hammond Civic Center( a place that's still existing today in Hammond, Indiana). So maybe, HOPEFULLY? Corgan goes thru the history of the Luce library and doesn't think 'too big, too fast'. That theory has killed many a promotion and will most likely kills his too.

obscure movies and such

Along with my views on Pro Wrestling I'm also going to post stuff on obscure movies, music bands, and songs I like that you'll either never see on tv or hear on the radio.

Like this movie here I watched just last night with then late Frank Vincent.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Overcoat

If you're a fan of the late Frank Vincent, I recommend this movie here too. Federal Hill, about the mob in Providence, Rhode Island. It also has Nicolas Turturro who went on to be in NTPD Blue and Blue Bloods.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109785/

Armand Assante who's in Chicago overcoat, is also great in this movie about the Mob in Hell's Kitchen called One Eyed King.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Eyed_King

More stuff like this, to be revealed. :)

Scherer's Words

Here's what I was talking about in my first post. Question three. Someone  know tried to put my name to Scherer about doing for PWInsider what I'm now doing with this blog (Scherer of course edited my name out) but as you can see. He's not about helping other smaller indy groups get exposure, he's just all about making a buck for himself.

https://www.pwinsider.com/article/112479/podcasting-on-the-wwe-network-wwes-response-to-jinder-dont-try-and-make-sense-of-tnagfwimpactwhatever-they-are-called-this-week-and-more.html?p=1

And So it Begins

This blog is going to be used mainly for my thoughts, views, video links, etc on various aspects of pro wrestling. I have in the past written for various newsletters (as I contribute to one based in Australia now run by Dan Lennard) and I HAVE, worked for a couple indy groups when I lived in New Hampshire back in the 90's (proof will be provided in this blog). So my insight in to the Wrestling business thanks to working behind the scenes in three of them, along with the legends that in one form or another worked with them, became a school of knowledge that is priceless and has honed my views on the business. Which nine times out of ten clashes totally opposite with the 'current era' of fans out there today that think high spots and barely any 'selling' is the way it should be.

We'll start with this. The link is to something I wrote many years ago on a long forgotten webpage. it's about how I got my break into the wrestling business thanks to a former WWF prelim wrestler(who was also a mid-card guy in Canada) by the name of Silvano Sousa. http://prowrestlingtapes.angelfire.com/awf.html I'll be posting some video links from some various matches of The Atlantic Wrestling Federation which include the late Steve Bradley (who had at one time a WWE Developmental deal and worked Memphis and HWA in Ohio, facing the likes of Kurt Angle, etc) and Matt Bloom who went on to be Prince Albert in WWE, Giant Bernard in Japan and is a current trainer in NXT.

Next we have this http://prowrestlingtapes.angelfire.com/WWA.html which is something I wrote on my time With World Wrestling Alliance New England, a company that had the WWF training Dojo on their shows (which was run by Dory Funk Jr, Bruce and Tom Pritchard and had Jim Cornette on it too. As well as various 'big names' that were in the WWE in 1997-98). There's a few of these Dojo show matches available on Youtube if you know where to look. I know where to look so I'll have them posted here too.

After that is this. http://prowrestlingtapes.angelfire.com/ewa.html Working for the Eastern Wrestling Alliance when they were based in Maine. There's acouple videos of that I'll be posting here as well.

But one of the most important articles I ever wrote would be this one right here. This was published in the Wrestling Then and Now newsletter back in 1998.  http://www.angelfire.com/wrestling3/thenandnow/articles/promoter.html as this was an article I wrote about the details of locally promoting my very first show with WWA New England. Rochester, New Hampshire is the toughest town in the state of N.H. to promote in because it's what's known as a 'permit' town. You have to go in front of the city council, to get approval, and THEN. Go in front of the city managing committee after that. A long grueling thing but I went thru it because, I lived in that town, so what better place than the town I lived in to have a show. ALOT of what is written here from back then, still works today and ALOT of indy promoters DON'T do it and then cry when they have low attendance at their shows. I went thru it so I know this formula works.

I also wrote this for WT&N as well. http://www.angelfire.com/wrestling3/thenandnow/articles/artone.html growing up in Chicago I grew up on AWA and Bob Luce (and Dick The Bruiser's) WWA in Indiana. So I write about old and new, the then and the now which is what this blog is going to be about. Indy groups I watch on a regular basis (as in every week their tv show ism posted on Youtube) are as follows. West Coast Wrestling Connection, Booker T's Reality of Wrestling, Appalachian Mountain Wrestling (from Kentucky), WWA (which runs Kentucky as well, though I have like three of their major shows to catch up on, lol) House of Bricks out of Massachusetts, along with occasionally watching AIWF, WCPW, ICW, and more. I recently caught a show called"Studio Wrestling" that I think used to be called NWA Mid-South Wrestling (It was on Matt Rivera's Youtube channel) which I absolutely loved. Damion Wayne has become a new fave for me to watch.

So this is an example of what's to come on this blog. Shots 'below the belt' speaking the truth or a very honest opinion on whatever in Pro Wrestling, clips from then and now and a lot of various indy things will be posted here. Other places focus on EVOLVE, PROGRESS, ROH but there's so many other groups that not many get to see, and should. I'd rather watch Indy wrestling over WWE, GFW/Impact/ whatever the fuck they're calling themselves this week because that. Is where I get the wrestling fix I want. WWE hasn't been able to do that almost ten years and it's obvious they dobn't want a fan like myself anymore. Impact Wrestling is so inconsistent with their week to week booking it's too much of a headache to watch. But thankfully with Jeff Jarrett gone (which IS funny because this is the second time he's been forced to leave HIS OWN company, something a lot of other 'wrestling journalists' have failed to mention) hopefully the 'Jarrett is Russo' booking will stop.

And so it begins with this and now I can start adding clips and whatnot to expand this blog to new horizons and help give some exposure to some smaller indy groups that certain 'wrestling sites' won't do because it doesn't monetize them at all (Dave Scherer's exact words about it two days ago in his mailbag on PWInsider, may produce a link to that to show).

So if you happen to come across this, thanks for reading and hope you like all the things that will be posted here. :)