- CWF Legends Fanfest on 11/3 in Tampa will have Gerald Brisco, Pat Patterson, Ron Fuller and Robert Fuller, as well as Bugsy McGraw appearing. It takes place in Lutz, FL at the Marriott Residence Inn and will be limited to 200 people. There will be a fan fest, an awards ceremony, a Q&A dinner with Patterson & Brisco and an after party with Patterson.
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Friday, September 28, 2018
Upcoming Championship Wrestling From Florida Legends Fanfest.
Various Indy Wrestling Dates This Weekend. Blackcraft Wrestling Cancels Show, etc.
- Pro Wrestling Eve has two shows tomorrow. The first at 10:30 a.m. Eastern time will be on Fite TV and the 3 p.m. show will be on Eve on Demand. The Fite TV show which is 3:30 p.m. local time in London has Charlie Morgan vs. Samii Jayne vs. Kasey vs. Rhia O'Reilly in a four corners elimination match for the Eve title, Chihiro Hashimoto vs. Alpha Female Jazzy Gabert, Jordynne Grace vs. Sierra Loxton, Jetta vs. Nina Samuels, Kay Lee Ray vs. Laura DiMatteo and Viper vs. Bea Priestley.
- MLW announced the Smash & Dash Connection vs. Samoan Island tribe for Thursday's TV tapings at the Melrose Ballroom in Long Island City, NY (Queens). The Samoan Island Tribe is Samu and his son Lance Anoa'i.
- Former WWE star Melina faces Erika Reid for the BCW women's title on 10/23 in Melbourne.
- CWL announced Ace Austin vs. Dave Crist as their first match for their TV show being taped tomorrow night in Brighton, MI which will air on WADL TV in Detroit.
- Clash Wrestling tomorrow at 6 p.m. in Taylor, MI with Allysin Kay (Sienna) vs. Miss Hannah.
- MCW Tag Wars tomorrow night at the MCW Arena in Joppa, MD.
- Blackcraft Wrestling has canceled its 10/5 show in Anaheim due to what it has called Unforeseen circumstances. They will refund all PPV and ticket money and for any ticket holder or PPV buyer they are also adding a $10 gift card for Blackcraft clothing as a make good. They said the next show will be December in Buffalo, NY.
- XICW announced that Ultimo Dragon is off its Cobo Arena show due to a knee injury suffered in a match on Monday with All Japan.
- All Star Wrestling tomorrow night in Surrey, BC at the Cloverdale Fairgrounds with Hiroto Okubo from Doutonbori Pro Wrestling as well as Alexander Hammerstone.
- World Class Revolution Oklamania tomorrow night in Ardmore, OK at Heritage Hall with Eric Bischoff, John Morrison, Taya Valkyrie, Sid Vicious, Chavo Guerrero Jr., Ross & Marshall Von Erich, Scott Steiner, Abyss and Jack Swagger.
Final Episode of The First Season Of WOS Wrestling Will Be....
The final episode of the first season of World of Sport on ITV in the U.K. will be tomorrow at 2:30 p.m. Rampage defends his WOS title against Justin Sysum and Isteyn Rees & Kip Sabian defend the tag titles against Grado & Davey Boy Smith Jr.
PCO: Pierre Carl Ouellet Documentary // Burn the Ships
Pierre Carl Ouellet or PCO has been a professional wrestler for over 30 years. He's worked for every major promotion in North America include WWE, WCW & TNA. He's also performed on almost every continent. At age 50, he found a new resurgence in his career thanks to his match against WALTER at GCW's Joey Janela's Spring Break 2 over Wrestlemania Weekend.
Thanks to his bizarre and intense online workout videos with the mysterious 'Destro,' PCO has become one of the most sought-after wrestlers on the independent circuit.
Find out what motivates him, his thoughts on Destro and his match against WALTER, and how he went from being one of The Quebecers to being PCO.
CWF Mid-Atlantic Wrestling: Worldwide #168 Trevor Lee vs Chet Sterling
Mid-Atlantic Heavyweight title: Trevor Lee(c) vs Chet Sterling
Weaver Cup Semifinal: Cain Justice vs Cam Carter
Weaver Cup Semifinal: John Skyler vs Kool Jay
Eric Bischoff Talks Ultimate Warrior's WCW Debut Setting The Stage For "Really Bad" Program
By late 1998 WCW's stranglehold in the Monday Night Wars began to wain. As a result, Eric Bischoff did what had initially worked to get WCW atop the ratings and that is recycle old WWEstars.
One of those was The Ultimate Warrior who dropped "ultimate" when he joined WCW. While Warrior provided a momentary bump in ratings for Nitro, his first segment on the show is often ridiculed today.
Bischoff relived Warrior's WCW debut on his podcast, 83 Weeks with Eric Bischoff.
"There was a lot of anticipation," Bischoff said about Warrior's 20 minute promo getting a high rating. "Look, Warrior had a lot of equity built up with the WWE audience. He was a known commodity. Nobody would have ever expected-with all of the heat between him and Hulk Hogan-nobody would have expected him there. There was this built-in, natural, promotional effort without having to expand any promotional effort on our part. It was automatic. The wrestling audience wanted to see what the hell is going to happen when these two come together because there was so much natural heat and story in the WWF."
Warrior's appearance was exciting because it was so unexpected, but his opening promo was generally panned by critics. He rambled on for over 20 minutes, both confusing the fans as well as Bischoff and Hogan who were in the ring and targets of his promo. Bischoff says it didn't take long to realize that bringing Warrior in was a mistake.
"On his first Nitro appearance was when I knew I was in trouble," Bischoff stated. "Everything else that happened after that was a decree of how bad it was going to be ultimately. When he first showed up and we walked through it and blocked it, everybody had a good idea of what the first promo was going to be. We knew that we had 8-10 minutes. Again, we had flexibility. We worked for the television company that owned us so there was a little room for margin of error when you are on live. But that first promo going back to his first appearance on Nitro, it was scheduled to only be 8-10 minutes, and somewhere along the 20-22 minute mark when Hulk Hogan and I were staring at each other in the middle of the ring and asking what the f**k he is talking about.
"We were completely lost, and so was the audience, and director, Craig Leathers is screaming in my ears, we were going so far over that even the margin for error that we had built in that the first promo that Warrior had shot went beyond 20 minutes. For a promo, I don't care who it is, that is a long promo. Everything that happened after that was confirmation that it was going to be really bad."
Warrior would only have three matches in WCW with the final one coming at Halloween Havoc in 1998. Nitro would defeat Raw in ratings the following Monday night, but that would be their last victory in the Monday Night Wars. Warrior would depart WCW two weeks later and Raw would defeat Nitro every Monday night until WCW was purchased by WWE in March 2001.
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