WWA (Kentucky) Hysteria 70 - Independence Day 2018

One of the biggest shows from the year comes from Central City, KY! -In the main event, Dakota France defends the WWA Championship in a Last Man Standing Match against Stonewall. Can Dakota pull off a huge upset and keep Stonewall down for a 10 count, or will Stonewall re-assert his dominance? -After such a heated rivalry has developed, Teddy King goes one on one with Jordan Whittaker. The winner becomes the number one contender to the WWA Championship. -Controlled Chaos get their WWA Tag Team Championship shot against the Perfect Pair. -After the shocking turn of events on the last Hysteria, what will happen between "Superior" Tony Evans and "Superstar" Ray Waddell? -Josiah is owed a rematch for the National Title against Tyler Hawkins. Tonight, Drake Jaxon hosts a contract signing for that match. All of this plus WWA Hardcore Champion Brenton Wood, Cortland Moore, Logan Abell, the Ring Leader, two WWA returns, and a huge announcement from CCW! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lptRXdQ00XY

USA Championship Wrestling Episode 21 (Bert Prentice's company)

Bam Bam Bundy is featured Starr Power Kevin Zion Jake Law Matt Riviera and much more.



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

Jim Cornette on Wendi Richter

From Corny's Drive-Thru #63 - Jim talks working with Wendi Richter before she went to the WWF.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6T_3o-ioFyA

Jim Cornette: When Fans Strike Back!

Classic Corny action from earlier this year where Jim talks on fans getting the better of wrestlers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrA4BKmZCRc

What New Deal Did Cody & Aldis make for NWA Title Match at ALL IN?

Since the NWA Worlds Heavyweight Championship match was announced for ALL IN back in May, there has been a lot of gamesmanship being played between Nick Aldis and Cody Rhodes. During recent Ring of Honor events, Cody and Nick Aldis made an agreement that if Cody won the Ring of Honor Worlds Championship, then he would put that title up at ALL IN. When Cody failed to win the ROH Championship at Best in the World, it caused the current NWA Worlds Champion to want to renegotiate. Now with the Flip Gordon vs. Nick Aldis match in the past, this segment aired on Ring of Honor Wrestling television with Cody calling out Nick Aldis to make a new deal. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YsCB4-lj-c

STING DISCUSSES WHETHER HE IS 100% DONE IN THE RING, AN UNDERTAKER MATCH, HOLDING OFF FOR SO LONG ON COMING TO WWE AND LOTS MORE

In the newest episode of “Chasing Glory with Lilian Garcia”, Lilian sits down with WWE Hall of Famer, Sting:

Growing up with his dysfunctional family: “My mom tried to get us to go to church on Sundays and my Dad didn’t want to have anything to do with it and we didn’t want to go to church. We wanted to go to the lake, we wanted to go to the beach, we didn’t want to live by a set of rules, so we thought. We kind of rebelled against the whole church thing and it was just a few pocket of times that I can remember being in Sunday school as a kid with my brother and my sister was really small, Mark was probably an infant at the time. We just rebelled against it. We turned into young adults and got through high school and part way through junior colleges and big universities, but no one ever got any degree or anything like that. We all loved each other, we were all very close, but very dysfunctional. It’s like you couldn’t be around each other for very long.”

Meeting Hulk Hogan without knowing about his star power: “When I grew up, where I grew up in Southern California, we did not have pro wrestling on TV. I didn’t know what it was. I ended up in my early young adult years co-owning a Gold’s Gym in San Fernando Valley with a guy named Ed Connors who was the treasurer of Gold’s Gym in Venice Beach. I managed the gym and I ended up being partners with him and this big big dude with blonde hair would come in and work out and the gym would freak out and say, “Oh my gosh, don’t you know who that is? It’s the guy from the Rocky movie! That’s Hulk Hogan!” I go, “Okay, I know the Rocky movie and I know that guy, but I don’t know who Hulk Hogan is!”

Confessing his infidelity to his wife and finding God in the process: “I confessed everything to my ex-wife. I was honest and truthful. It was horrendous, it was one of the worst moments of my life watching her life blood just come out of her almost, it was just horrendous. God at that point, I said, “Okay, I have given God lip service,” I literally said this prayer, “I’ve given you lip service, oh Lord.” And I had, nothing was real to me. It was like, wave your magic wand and fix everything. He doesn’t care about working with people like that, not from the outside in, but from the inside out. First he wanted my heart, and he never had my heart because it was only lip service until finally August of 1998 when I realized there’s no amount of money, no amount of power, no drug, no woman, no man, no doctor, nothing, nothing is going to fix this horrendous deep dark despair and I have messed lives up everywhere and I cannot fix this on my own. I need some supernatural and I said, “God, I surrender my life to you. Jesus Christ come and live inside my heart.” So that’s what happened to me in August of 1998 when I was at the very peak of my career. Muscle relaxers, pain relievers, alcohol, women, a lifestyle, even language that comes out of my mouth, everything changed radically overnight, and I was watching friends die from this kind of lifestyle over the years.”

What made him not go to WWE at first:

“Number one, WCW would always give me what I asked for. I knew that the commitment that I would have to make with Vince was being gone a lot more, a lot more time on the road, a lot more time away. With WCW at the time, I was able to kind of tailor make my schedule to something that I could tolerate and something that was easier for my family at the time. Financially they always gave me what I wanted, but I was really close to leaving on a few different occasions and I was ready. If WCW didn’t give me what I wanted, then I was willing to take that risk and go to WWE. One of the other reasons why I never did, I always talked about this as well, I at the time-and I still don’t know if it’s accurate or not, but I thought that Vince wanted me as a talent to undermine WCW more than he wanted me as a talent working for him.”

His reaction when he finally came to WWE: “I was shocked at how everyone treated me. I met the entire PR department up there in the big building in Connecticut. I went up there and met everybody and everyone-it wasn’t false, it was real. The enthusiasm, I mean everybody was just pumped to have me there and I felt pretty secure about it. They treated me well and Vince has been nothing but respectful and good to me all these years. By the time I ended up coming up there, he was the same way. When I went up there the first time, he wanted me to come in and say hello to him. He even wanted to produce and direct a lot of my spots that I did.”

If he is done wrestling or not: “Yeah, I’m really done. I mean my neck doesn’t bother me at all. For the first couple of months after the match, I had an ache that would go down to the left side of my neck and down into my left trap. It was like a dull ache that was just there all the time and it was hard to sleep. I don’t have any side effects, any trouble so all I know is the neurosurgeon said, “You are so lucky there wasn’t a catastrophe that happened.   I got to be careful and it’s sad too because even at my age I feel like I could still go, I could still have a real good Undertaker match for example. We could tell an incredible story with both the chemics and the mystique of both of them. I’ve had these ideas for 20 years, some of the ideas I have in my head. It would be something that people would talk about for a long time, but I’m satisfied. I’m happy with the way things turned out. I did have my WWE run, it was short, but I had one. I did WrestleMania, I wrestled Seth Rollins, I wrestled for the WWE World Title, so I can’t complain.

Nicoli Volkoff's very last match.

From Battleground Championship Wrestling on 5/5/18 in Feasterville, PA: Jim Duggan & Nikolai Volkoff vs. Nicky Benz & Mecha Mercenary

https://www.rfvideovault.com/media/nikolai-volkoffs-last-match/77527/feature?t=0

NIKOLAI VOLKOFF PASSES AWAY AT 70

Former WWF tag team champion and memorable 1980s wrestling villain Nikolai Volkoff (real name Josip Nikolai Peruzović) passed away Sunday at the age of 70.

Volkoff had spent several days recently in a Maryland hospital where he was being treated for dehydration and other ailments and was recently released.

A former weightlifter in Yugoslavia, Volkoff was trained by Stu Hart and eventually found his way to Vince McMahon Sr.'s World Wide Wrestling Federation as Bepo Mongol and won the tag team titles while managed by Captain Lou Albano. He would leave the organization in 1971 and eventually return under the name Nikolai Volkoff, feuding with Bruno Sammartino over the WWWF title.

His most well-known run to mainstream wrestling fans was in the mid-1980s with the Iron Shiek, managed by Fred Blassie. The duo won the tag team titles once and Volkoff later became a singles wrestler, using his Russian heel gimmick in feuds with Hulk Hogan and others. He would remain in the company until 1995 when he went into "semi retirement". He appeared randomly on throwback editions of WWE Raw through the years. 

He leaves behind a wife and two daughters.

Why can't they say it like it is, He killed himself, not "passed away"? BRIAN CHRISTOPHER PASSES AWAY AT 46 YEARS OLD

Brian Christopher (Brian Christopher Lawler) has passed away at 46 years old.

WWE announced his passing on their website: "WWE is saddened to learn that Brian Christopher Lawler, who is best known in WWE as Too Cool’s Grandmaster Sexay, has passed away. Lawler, who is the son of WWE Hall of Famer Jerry 'The King' Lawler, competed during the height of the Attitude Era. WWE extends its condolences to Lawler’s family, friends and fans."

Christopher had been pronounced brain dead earlier this morning after hanging himself in his jail cell at the Hardeman County Jail in Tennessee. A family friend reported to us that they were waiting for Jerry Lawler to come to the hospital to say goodbye before Christopher's life support was pulled.

Christopher was arrested for DUI on July 7 after failing to immediately stop when police tried to pull him over. He was being held on a $40,000 bond. His father and a family friend had been working on getting him to a rehab center, but Christopher didn't know when he was going to be released from prison.

After starting his career at 16 under a mask in Tennessee, Christopher joined the WWF in 1997. He went on to hold the WWF Tag Team titles once with Scotty 2 Hotty in 2000, with the two of them part of the popular "Too Cool" trio with Rikishi.

Paul "Triple H" Levesque also tweeted about Christopher's death: "Incredibly sad news about the passing of Brian Christopher. A tragic loss of life. Both @StephMcMahon and I are thinking of Jerry Lawler and the entire Lawler family this evening."