I've had more than a few people either
email me or message me on FB why I have this beef with Columnist Dave
Scherer at PWInsider. If you knew what I knew then you might
understand why what's there is there. So What I'm going to do is
explain it. I'm also goiung to put some other things that are claimed
to task as well. Take note though, that I know Scherer will see this
but he won't have the balls to acknowledge it freely. You'll have to
be one of his “VIP Members” At PWInsider who have to 'pay' to
hear what he thinks (why anyone would want to do that, is fucking
idiotic, but yes, people do pay).
Someone I know had emailed me and asked
if he could suggest me to Scherer as being part of the PWInsider
staff as a contributor based on how I focus a lot on indy wrestling.
My answer was 'sure, give it a shot but I bey he'll find a reason to
say no”. Needless to say, I was right. His reply was more or less
because what I write wouldn't 'monetize' his webpage, though he does
have others who post Indy wrestling things freely on their
PWInsiderxtra web page. Makes you wonde rif those people have to
'pay' in order to have their results posted since this was Scherer's
logic about monetizing”.
A few emails into it Scherer says (and
I posted the email here as proof because proof is, a mother fucker :)
) “I could care less what that guys says, he has tried to make a
name for himself by slandering legitimate reporters, I just ignore
him”. HHMMM If that was true then the other screen shots of an
email convo he and I had that are posted, would've never existed..
Again, proof is a mother fucker and needless to say, Putting his foot
in his mouth is something Scherer has proven to be quite good at
doing. Also claiming the guy who emailed him was me was also another
dumb decision he made as you see by the ACTUAL email convo I posted
here.
But let's take what he said to task,
shall we? Because again, either he's clueless, ignorant or doesn't
know any better when he says shit without thinking. I 'tried to make
a name for myself'.. Well, this is where I get to with pleasure, put
him in his place on that claim.
According to the Wikipedia page that's
dedicated to him he..Founded his dirt sheet The Wrestling Lariat in
1995.. I remember writing my first column for a little monthly dirt
sheet out of Mississippi named “Pro Wrestling Monthly” back in
1993, by 1994 I was writing regularly for that one, Another one
called Global Pro Wrestling News based in Alabama, as well as The
Wrestling Edge Monthly newsletter which was based in New York City.
Here's a link to where I wrote about HOW, I became a sheet writer
that I did on an old Angelfire web page I once used.
http://prowrestlingmemories.angelfire.com/sheetwriter2.html You click that, and this one here...
http://prowrestlingmemories.angelfire.com/drawingheat.html and you'll see that I had or HAVE already made a name for myself with
what I wrote. The latter link was based on heat I had with the late
Dennis Caroluzzo, and his NWA in new Jersey over what they got busted
for. Question someone like IWF promoter in New Jersey Tommy Fierro
and he'll remember this since he took part in it and got checked,
along with Caroluzzo and others for what they did in 'retaliation' of
me writing the truth on Caroluzzo's NWA.
And let's not forget I also contributed
articles to Wrestling Then and Now, another monthly newsletter back
in the day as well. Proof you ask? Proof you get right here with
this,
http://www.angelfire.com/wrestling3/thenandnow/articles/artone.html and this, which is the experience of locally promoting my first show
in Rochester, NH for WWA New England.
http://www.angelfire.com/wrestling3/thenandnow/articles/promoter.html These come from where? The old Wrestling Then and Now web page on
Angelfire. Add to this three articles I contributed to Wrestling
World magazine (one on Sylvano Sousa's Atlantic Wrestling Federation
in NH/Mass. One on WWA New England and a third one on the Eastern
Wrestling Alliance when they were based in Maine) and I do say that
Scherer's claim of me 'trying to make a name for myself' has been
shot to shit. Like I said, proof.. IS, a mother fucker and that's an
awful lot of proof to put Scherer in his place.
I also to this day write for Dann
Lennard's “Feed The Gorilla' fanzine that's based in Australia. I
just recently did another article for that that will be published in
a few weeks. Been writing for Dann's various fanzines since 1994, so
there's that as well Scherer, How's it feel to really look stupid at
this moment?
Here's another claim about Scherer from
this Wikipedia page. “Scherer played an important role in making
ECW noticed in the early 90's thru tape trading”. Excuse me a
second while I start laughing, hahahahahahahhahaa.. Funny, it wasn't
Scherer who got me interested in ECW tapes, it was actually two
different people I was trading tapes with who taped the tv shows
themselves.. Guy named “Steve” in New York and a guy named “Mark”
who lived in Old Saybrook, CT. and got ECW both on Sportschannel
Philly and the MSG Network on his cable system.. Plus add in the fact
that RF VIDEO had $1200 full page ads in Pro Wrestling Illustrated
every month claiming to be the 'official distributor' of ECW tapes
(and one of the links I shared, how I became a sheet writer, explains
how instead of getting an ECW Merchandise catalog every time I
requested one, I got a video update from RF VIDEO instead). So that
being the case how is it that Scherer did shit when there were others
selling and trading ECW tapes and I got the tapes from them? Makes
you go, HHMMMMMMMM.
The other screen shots that have an
email conversation that DID happen between me and Scherer (my only
interaction ever with him) was about something I caught on his
PWInsider web page, a media call with Bruce Pritchard that only 'VIP
Members' who 'pay' for a membership could listen to. But looking at
other wrestling news sites like The Torch and Wrestlinginc, they had
a link for ANYBODY who wanted to hear it, could click the link and
hear it. I simply emailed him and asked him why should someone 'pay'
for your VIP membership to hear something they can go somewhere else
and listen to it for free. You can by the conversation he wasn't
'getting it'. Hell you can go to Youtube and if you know where to
look? Same thing, hear it without having to 'pay' for a membership. I
even sent him a link to the Torch where they had a link you could
click and hear it for free but that sailed over Scherer's head as
well. What he did was what all people seem to do when I catch them on
shit and they can't ballroom dance around it convincingly, he did the
usual and typical internet response of trying to change the subject
by showing me a link to something I posted on Youtube. After I caught
him on that and verbally bashed him on catching him changing the
subject to avoid the fact his excuses weren't adding up? Guess what,
he blocked my email account. Imagine that. Typical internet bitch
move.
But really, seriously, why pay for a
membership that has media calls you can hear for free elsewhere, and
just to hear him and Michael Johnson have podcasts doing 'mailbag's'?
(Yawns) Yes, people actually do pay for this 'exclusive content'
(rolls eyes) and think this is a great thing. I guess what they say
about fools and their money is indeed true.
So there you go, Why there's a beef
with Scherer, and where he and Johnson at Pwinsider, Wrestlinginc,
Torch and Meltzer are the first to whine and bitch when nobody gives
them credit for stories they do, when I've sent all these people
stuff, they never give me any credit. Every time I've asked them to
explain this logic of crying and bitching when others don't give you
credit but you won't give me credit, I get no answer, from any of
them. Interesting mentality this is, eh? So fuck em., and In a way
I'm not glad Scherer fucked up on me like he did. With this blog, my
FB group of the same name and being an admin or editor for five other
FB wrestling groups I have my own platform to write things how I
want. And I don't have to 'try' and make a name for myself because in
many ways.. I already have. And I will continue to do with no need to
have people 'pay' for what I say, let em see it for free the way it's
meant to be :)
