Sunday, January 7, 2018

Love watching this company. It's another of my favorites. WWA Hysteria 55 - High Risk

 
Published on Jan 4, 2018
High Risk hits Central City!

-What happened in the WWA Title Match at Boundless between Jordan Whittaker and Teddy King?
-Who is Stonewall? We find out, as he faces Tyler Hawkins
-One show away from the Tag Titles vs Mask match, we hear from the Super Package and Logan Abell & Avispo
-Who will walk out of the Triple Threat TLC Main Event as the National Champion between Tony Evans, CCW, and Josiah?

Kenny Omega VS Chris Jericho (HIGHLIGHTS) - Wrestle Kingdom 12

Kenny Omega & Chris Jericho : WRESTLE KINGDOM 12 - 8TH MATCH post-match comments

For anyone who may not have seen this. Chris Jericho Attacks Tetsuya Naito!

Chris Jericho sets his sights on Naito!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8PwgK2bOpE

Michael Elgin issues an apology.

Indy things

Kansas City Xtreme Wrestling on 1/13 in Kansas City at the State Street Project has Ricky Morton as a headliner. He'll also be doing a seminar from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in Kansas City at the Xtreme Wrestling Center.

C4 Wrestling on 1/20 in Ottawa at the Vanier Columbus Club.

United Wrestling Coalition on 1/13 in Wrightstown, NJ at Kelly's Banquet Hall with an elimination match main event.

Pro Wrestling Championship Series from last night in Alton, IL: Jake Parnell won three-way over AJ Gray and Stephen Wolf, Mike Outlaw b Matt Kenway, Chris Mac won six-way over Alexandre Rudolph, Jake Garvin, Josh Bishop, Thomas Shire and Marko Stunt, Davey Vega b Mat Fitchett, Edvin Kudic b Dr. Daniel Rockingham, Dominic Garrini b Paco Gonzalez, Ranne Victoria won three-way over Allie Kat and Savanna Stone, Gary Jay & Everett Connors & Evan Gelistico & Pierre Abernathy b Davey Vega & Danny Adams & Christian Rose & Adrian Surge in an elimination match.

Hoosier Pro Wrestling from yesterday in Columbus, IN: Ace Jackson b Tim Lutz-DQ, Echo the Clown b Scarecrow, Duke the Nuke b Fireball, Lightning Bolt b Drax O'Brien, Axeman b Bambino Family-DQ, Flash Flanagan b Butcher Manson, Kenny Cage b Dillen Swango to keep the HPW title. Next show is 2/3.

Revolution Pro Wrestling results

Revolution Pro Wrestling from yesterday in London: Zoe Lucas b Zan Phoenix in the women's tournament, Deonna Purrazzo b Sammii Jayne in the women's tournament, Pete Dunne b Phantasmo, Jinny b Nina Samuels in the women's tournament, Millie McKenzie b Charli Evans in the women's tournament, Tyler Bate & Trent Seven NC Chris Brookes & Travis Banks when Zack Gibson and Josh Bodom interfered. The show was a sellout as was today's show.

Today's results: Deonna Purrazzo b Zoe Lucas in the women's tournament semifinals, Jinny b Millie McKenzie in the women's tournament semifinals, Pete Dunne b Chris Brookes (Brookes was bleeding), Nina Samuels & Charli Evans b Zan Phoenix & Sammii Jayne, Zack Sabre Jr. b Martin Stone (Danny Burch in NXT), Jinny b Deonna Purrazzo to become the first Revolution Pro women's champion. Millie McKenzie attacked Jinny after the match.

I wonder if my friend Dann Lennard knows somnething about this.

Slex, who had the noteworthy match in Melbourne with Kazuchika Okada recently, is now been booked for the next World Series Wrestling tour of Australia. He's been pushed more than any of the there natives, so it's the first case of a guy beating treated like a far bigger star in Australia for losing to a Japanese wrestler.

For fans of this in the Los Angeles area.

Azteca America, which airs CMLL on Saturdays is moving from LATV to KJLA in Los Angeles.

A place in Russia selling Bullet Club shirts, well kinda, lol.

Russian brand "TVOE" (meaning "Yours"), which sells different clothes for youth, is now selling long-sleeved T-shirt with Bullet club logo. It's slightly changed (different type of guns), but it even has "Bullet club" words there. The price is 599 rubles, which is 10 USD. They also have black and white version. People don't know it's a pro wrestling shirt and stealng designs and logos from the U.S. is a common theme in Russia.

Fight Pro Wrestling Episode 25

Published on Jan 7, 2018
Part one of the three part season finale, Hub City Showdown. Brandon Scott makes his Fight Pro Wrestling return as he takes on AC Wolf. In the main event, Killian McMurphy takes on Vic Ramon in a Technical Division match.

PODCAST RECAP AND REVIEW: Steve Austin Unleashed! with Al Snow on why Al was a big part of WrestleMania 13, the 7-step match and why it doesn’t work, why wrestlers shouldn’t plan so many spots, an unfortunate incident with a horse at an indy show

PODCAST RECAP AND REVIEW: The Ross Report with Pat Laprade and Sean Waltman on Maurice Vachon’s career, brawls, and run in with the mob, X-Pac’s classic Raw match with Bret Hart, Jim Cornette vs. The Young Bucks

Here's a showing of how many have viewed this blog in the last couple days.

Last 48 hours this is the number of people who have viewed this blog and where they're from.

It's all because of you that this blogs stays a success so thank you for taking the time to view this. These kind of numbers are still very surprising so again, thank you.

Results- 1/6 F1RST WRESTLING “WrestlePalooza XI” in Minneapolis, Minn.: Arik Cannon, Shane Strickland, Ethan Page, Colt Cabana, Fire Ant, Chuck Taylor, Candice LaRae

REPORT BY KEITH HUSON

ATTENDANCE: 1,000+

I attended F1rst Wrestling’s Wrestlepalooza XI event this Saturday.  The Wrestlepalooza events are unique in that they take place in the world famous First Avenue nightclub in downtown Minneapolis, are 18+, feature live music and burlesque shows, and have no seating with the crowd barricaded off about ONE foot from the ring.   The show sold out several weeks ahead of time and attendance was announced as “more than 1,000” which seemed credible given the size of the venue.
Show rundown and results:

(1) Thunder Frog & Wild Cat defeated Rob Justice & Scott Story.  This was announced as a “lucha” tag match.  The first of many comedy spots was Justice, who does a cop gimmick, frisking Wild Cat in the corner and finding a bag of cat nip hidden in his trunks.  Fun match to kick off the show with lots of crowd involvement and chants of “Meow!” and “Ribbit!” for the anthropomorphic babyface team.
“All Ego” Ethan Page interrupted the celebration to attack Wild Cat while cutting a heel promo on Minneapolis until Colt Cabana made the save.
(2) Colt Cabana pinned Ethan Page in a crowd-pleasing match.
Punk band “Off With Their Heads” played a short set.
(3) Candice LaRae defeated Chuck Taylor.  I’m not a huge fan of intergender matchups, but the crowd was into it.

Up next was a burlesque performance by dancer Scarlet Revolver.
(4) Arik Cannon defeated Shane Strickland and Jason Cade and Fire Ant in a Fatal Four-Way to retain the Wrestlepalooza Championship. This match highlighted the drawback of having the crowd standing right up against the ring, as highflyers Cade and Strickland were limited to relatively tame dives into the ring.  Still a good match with (F1rst Wrestling promoter) Arik Cannon picking up the win after a brainbuster.
“Off With Their Heads” played another set before being interrupted by local heel Darin Corbin, who stole a guitar and threatened us with an Elias-esque acoustic set.  “Off With Their Heads” took back their guitar and hit Corbin with it, sending him to the back in a fun segment.
(5) Air Wolf & Space Monkey defeated The Ugly Duckings of Lance Lude & Rob Killjoy in the match of the night. This was my first time seeing any of these guys and I was very impressed.  Air Wolf in particular was great and quickly had the crowd chanting his name.  After the match, Air Wolf challenged Wrestlepalooza champion Arik Cannon to a title match at the next event.
(6) Local talent Chaos 300 beat Cody Rice in a basic match.
More burlesque with performer Sweat Pea.
(7) Ryan Cruz defeated Darin Corbin for sole possession of the Wrestlepalooza Tag Titles.  Cruz and Corbin were longtime tag partners in the Midwest as North Star Express until the dastardly Corbin turned on his best friend Cruz.  This was a no DQ match with lots of big bumps and brawling. In the end, Cruz hit a frog splash off a ladder for the win.  After more than three hours and many over-priced drinks, the crowd seemed tired but still managed some decent pops for the two local guys.

FINAL THOUGHTS: Overall an enjoyable show with a hot crowd, I would definitely recommend F1rst Wrestling to anyone in the Minneapolis-Saint Paul area.

Hogan and Sting do promos for upcoming appearance

WWE Hall of Famers Sting and Hulk Hogan will be reuniting for a photo-op at the Ace Universe Comic Con on Monday, January 15th in Glendale, Arizona. To promote the event, both wrestlers cut promos, Hogan referenced losing to Sting at Starrcade in 1997 and did his usual "Whatcha gonna do?" while Sting tried to do his best Hogan impression, but thought it could use some work.

https://twitter.com/HulkHogan/status/949808742828314624

https://twitter.com/Sting/status/949771942671847424

Vince Russo On Challenging Vince McMahon, Current WWE Creative, Misconceptions Of His Career

The THIRD YEAR Anniversary episode of The Two Man Power Trip of Wrestling features the most polarizing, controversial and talked about figure in the history of the wrestling business as Vince Russo joins today's show. A guest that is fitting for a milestone like a three year anniversary show, Russo takes us on a journey through some of his greatest moments in the industry as well as share with Chad and John just how much happier and different his life is today having survived all the years of being in pro wrestling. We also get some very cool information about Vince Russo's "BRAND" and all of the podcasts he produces for The Relm Network and Podcast One. Sit back and relax and let the melodic tones of Vinny Ru relax your brain as the TMPToW just got a huge dose of some much needed attitude. The full episode can be downloaded at this link.

 
PLEASE CREDIT The Two Man Power Trip of Wrestling FOR THIS TRANSCRIPTION

Where did the "crash" TV mindset come from when writing shows in the Attitude Era:

"Basically where "crash" TV came from is real simple because there is no reason in the world that they should not instill the same freaking work ethic and if they instilled this today the show would go from a one to a ten overnight. Where "crash" TV came from was because we were going head to head with Monday Nitro. The way Ed (Ferrera) and I wrote the show is you had a television with a wrestling fan sitting in front of that television set on Monday night and they had a choice between Nitro and RAW. When they flip over to RAW and they are watching RAW they are begging you to give them a reason and give them a low and give them the opportunity to tune over to the other show and (bro) knowing if they tune over to the other show and there is something good there, they may never come back. Ed and I literally wrote that show like the wrestling fan was sitting in front of his TV on Monday nights and he had the remote control in his hand and he was begging you to let him flip over to see what was going on on Nitro. That is where "crash" TV came from and you know what? There is no reason in the world that it should not be the same psychology today."
What is the main problem plaguing WWE across the board:

"Here is the problem in a nutshell and this is the problem across the board. It's because of politics and that is what it is all about. It is all about ego and because of ego, politics and power they have people in key positions that have no reason being there. You know how in every other big company like if you work for Apple or you work for a Chevrolet, any company you work for will want to hire the best people to make their company better. That is how companies become better. You look at kids coming out of college and you look at people that are out there with experience and you are always looking for better people to make you better. Bro, wrestling is the complete opposite. They have inadequate people in key positions that got there because of politics and if you are on the outside looking in and you have any kind of talent whatsoever they will do anything in their power to keep you away. They will bury you, they will start campaigns online, they will smear your name, they will lie about you, they will make crap up about you and anybody that is better than them they just destroy because they are protecting their spot. When somebody comes in that is better than them all of a sudden they are exposed. There is no light at the end of the rainbow and they don't have the right people in there and they don't have the right people doing the key jobs and that is evident every time you watch one of their shows."
Is it Vince McMahon just surrounding himself with "yes men" that is the problem:

"Bro, you want to know something that makes no sense? All of these clowns, they are all writing to please Vince. They are all writing to please a 72 year old man. Unfortunately, 72 year old men are not your audience."

Challenging Vince on booking decisions:

"I will never forget there was a Summer Slam at Madison Square Garden with AC/DC Highway to Hell and I'll never forget the main event was Taker vs. Austin. Taker and Austin were really good friends and they wanted to go into that match at Madison Square Garden and they wanted to make it a babyface match because as a shoot they were very close. I remember getting in a yelling match with Vince McMahon and lets face it Taker and Austin were the top guys and they earned that spot so Vince wanted to make them happy and I couldn't understand that."
"I remember saying to Vince and especially in New York at Madison Square Garden that people do not want to see a babyface match between Austin and Taker, they want to see these guys freaking kill each other. It's freaking New York City bro this isn't Wisconsin and I remember yelling at him in his freaking car. The end of that story is they had their babyface match and there was no response and both guys knew why but that doesn't matter. My point is that I got away with that stuff because at the end of the day Vince knew my passion and he knew that Vince Russo wasn't about power and ego and money and all that crap but he was about wanting the show being the best it could absolutely be. Vince knew that and if he didn't know that do you know how many times he would have fired me? He knew what my agenda was and he knew where my heart was and it was always in the show being the best it could be. Today it is all about protecting your spot and making sure you are safe, write something that Vince will like and OH MY GOD bro it is freaking horrible."
What is the biggest misconception of Vince Russo:

"You know what part of the misconception is about me and listen I'm not saying this to be braggadocios because I swear to you I do not have an ego and I don't give a crap. But I wrote for characters long enough to know what gets a character over and at the end of the day here is what gets a character over."
"Basically you've got to find something in them that is very real so when they go out and portray that (character) you magnify it a million times over and people believe it. They are not acting because it is real to them. That is the key to getting a character over. With that said, when they started putting so much freaking pressure on me to get rating at WCW, bro I never wanted to be a character on TV and I never had any intentions of being a character on TV."
"To this day, I promise you that is 90% of the reason why so many people disdain me. They disdain me because in their minds I am still that character and I'm not. That is not me, I don't carry myself that way and I swear to God that I buried myself at WCW and later on in TNA buried myself because I never put on a power play, I never wanted power, never wanted more money I just wanted to write the television show. That is all I cared about and those around me who were political animals buried me and were burying me because they were afraid of me and because they knew my talent. The only way they were going to bring me down was to continue to bury me over and over again until they convinced that person that I was the person that they wanted me to be. Bro, I didn't fight back because my whole theory was if you want to buy into that and want to believe them than no problem just get rid of me and let them do the job and lets see what happens. With TNA, you can look at TNA and you can look at the numbers and you can pinpoint exactly where Russo left the company. You can look at those numbers and see that Vince wrote up to this point and than Vince left because you look at that number month after month and they started losing more and more audience. So that is the misconception, people don't know me, they have no idea of who I am and they don't know about Vince Russo the son, the husband, the father, they know of me as being a fictional character that they saw on TV."

People in Portland. Oregon want wrestling today? Here's something. DOA WRESTLING RETURNING TO PORTLAND, OREGON TONIGHT

DOA Pro Wrestling presents Portslamdia on Sunday January 7,
at Harvey's Comedy Club, 436 NW 6th Avenue, Portland, OR.
Doors open at 1:00 pm, with a 2:00 pm bell time.

All tickets are $15 and seating is first come first serve

The show is all ages, and the venue has a full bar and menu.

Already signed to appear:

* MAIN EVENT/DOA Grand Championship
DOA Grand Champion Ethan HD defends against Schaff

* Johnny Paradise vs. Mike Santiago

Plus:
* DOA Pure Champion Julian Whyt
* DOA Tag Team Champions 4 minutes of Heat
* FMW Hardcore Legend Dr. Luther
* RockGod Ricky Gibson
* Wade Hess
* Dr. Kliever
* The Devil Drexl
* The Higher 5
* CJ Edwards
* Sonico
* Northwest Express
* Eric Right
* Udo
* Kaine Jaiden

and much much more!

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