Wrestling Past And Present: 03/27/19

Wednesday, March 27, 2019

Chris Brookes vs PAC RPW Live In Northampton

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScxYohGtK2Q

Mat Memory- Empire Pro Wrestling- EPW 39 Steel Cage Hyde Park 1996

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uUkpVr9Vzo

Mat Memory- Empire Pro Wrestling- EPW 034 Blood Sweat and Chairs

Empire Pro Wrestling is a New England Indy group owned by Rocky Raymond. Anyone in the business in the New England Area knows of, or who.. Rocky Raymond is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYXqic6200A

Mat Memory- Empire Pro Wrestling- EPW 076 House of Pain Then and Now Part 2v2

Mat Memory- Empire Pro Wrestling- EPW 075 House of Pain Then and Now Part 1

Supreme Wrestling- Supreme Last Word 39

On this edition of Supreme Last Word, we gear up for Final Friday for March featuring the Supreme Junior Heavyweight Invitational as well as Leon Elliot getting his shot at Supreme Heavyweight Champion Nic Noble, this Friday night!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThPNZ9F8gwY

Armando Estrada And Fatu Put AAW On Notice | AAW Pro Wrestling

Armando Estrada and FATU put AAW on notice after Hell Hath No Fury.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=degBDMpS8lA

Backstage With Our New Champion Dan Maff After WHAT! 9 (Wrestling Has A Tomorrow!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnA5iZKBDFw

Les Thatcher discusses working with Jim Cornette, Jim Ross, Bob Caudle, SMW and more

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puI9GB7lw10

Les Thatcher discusses working with Jim Ross, Jim Cornette, Bob Caudle, and so much more as he discusses his time in Smoky Mountain Wrestling in the 90s.

Capitol Wrestling - Episode 103: RETURN OF DERANGED!

This Week on Capitol Wrestling TV, the Freestyle Tournament kicks off as KC Navarro, Black Zemis, Azrieal, and the returning Deranged compete in the First Round. Also, Everett Cross wants payback against the man who betrayed him last week, MV Young. Finally, Machete Killen make things even MORE personal with the Rock Dogs! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iauql0bqYoE

Vanguard Championship Wrestling- Irvin Legend vs. Madd Maxx Morrison - 03.09.19

VCW kicked-off our annual fundraiser at Hampton High School with performances by the Hampton High School Harmonics and Drum Line! Travis Bradshaw and Neil Sharkey would then run down the evening's card, which lead to our opening contest between Irvin Legend and Madd Maxx Morrison! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hBORuXCI24

Interview Highlights: Kenny Omega talks about five-star matches, WWE interest, his new documentary, his AEW contract, not facing Okada at G1 Supercard, more

Kenny Omega spoke about a variety of topics with “The Two Man Power Trip of Wrestling” about his documentary, “Omega Man: A Wrestling Love Story” set to premiere on TSN in Canada on Mar 27. This documentary was filmed with the idea of showing what the life of Kenny Omega is really like, spending his time living in Japan as well as chronicling matches in the United States. In addition to details about the documentary, they look into the last few months of Kenny Omega and his signing with AEW, what matches could be on the horizon for him, contract details, and what is next for the “Best Bout Machine.”

•The story behind the documentary’s conception: “This whole thing came about a year and change ago. I received my first email from the producers and director and they had asked if I would be so kind as to let them into my life and follow me a day in the life of Kenny Omega in Japan. I thought maybe this was going to be a foreigner trying to make it in Japan and I had my reservations about it at first because I have a certain way that I live my life in Japan, the way I prepare for my big matches and I was worried that having a film crew kind of buzzing around me at all times was going to sort of interrupt my zen, so I actually turned them down at first. It wasn’t until they responded much later with a very nice email and kind of going into depth as to why they selected me as a topic of discussion, I had seen that there was a lot of passion behind this project and that these people were familiar with my career and were very interested in telling my story. Of course they didn’t know at the time what that story would be, they just wanted to see what it was like in Japan and what my career was all about and I suppose in the end it has become the wrestling love story because the sort of reunion with Kota Ibushi was a very big deal for me in the year of 2018 and it was a very storied and a storied event between the two of us that ran the course of over ten years. So to have all that documented in this film is and I don’t know because I haven’t seen it yet, a pretty cool thing.”

•On not viewing the finished product before the premiere: “Truth be told, I’m a shy person and to me for lack of a better term it is a little embarrassing. I feel (I don’t know) strange to be the subject of a documentary. I’m used to wrestling camera crews following me, I’m used to wrestling style documentaries being aired on wrestling programs and wrestling streaming services but never a documentary that is a stand-alone documentary from people that don’t have experience in wrestling to kind of tell the story from an outsider perspective on wrestling. So, I was kind of scared to watch it and I didn’t think I would but now that sort of the preliminary reviews are coming in and generally they are all positive I might sit down and watch it because maybe there is nothing to be embarrassed about.”

Did his AEW contract prevent him from facing Okada at G1 Supercard: “I have zero restrictions on what I do as long as I feel it is in my best creative interests I am open to doing anything. But of course it has got to be a two way street and it takes two to tango and it is about timing. I was fully prepared for the epic showdown at Madison Square Garden and I thought it would have been a very cool match to have Okada / Omega at MSG and not because of the building. A building name or a location doesn’t really mean much to me. I have no emotional connection to Madison Square Garden and I know it is regarded as the mecca of Sports Entertainment in terms of a building but I just wanted to have that match on American soil just once. We sort of were able to show a little bit of our chemistry in America in the tag match we had (Myself and Ibushi vs. Okada and Ishii) and it felt good and it felt really fun and timing wise business is business and things didn’t work out the way that I had anticipated and we are not going to get it at Madison Square Garden. But that doesn’t mean that the story is over and the book is closed. We both are going to be very active in professional wrestling for a number of years I would assume and I think that if there is another opportunity for it and who knows it may be better to just wait it out and get that 5th match somewhere else down the line.”

•The ease of putting together a five star match: “It is a lot of pressure and, of course, it takes two to tango, but ironically when I use the word tango I can relate it to and liken it to perhaps ballroom dancing. Where the best dancers in the world can dance in sync with any partners that are professionally trained. Their body responds to every twitch of the muscle fiber and it almost becomes an animalistic response and it becomes reaction and becomes instinct and whether I’ve always had that or not I am not sure but I realized I had this skill in 2016 at the G1 in my first run in the G1. That was perhaps the way I wanted to approach my story telling plus the passion that I had and the pride that I had with my own performances were various components in a gigantic witches brew that allowed me to really evolve myself as a performer and once I made that gigantic evolutionary step I sort of felt that I unlocked the secret to I guess you could call it the five star match. Without sounding too egotistical, a five star match to me is kind of an easy thing to do with almost anybody. The only time I would falter in my quest to have a five star match was when I really go out of my way to try something absolutely new or something that I am unfamiliar with or 100 percent comfortable with because I could rehash and recycle the same old formula because I know what works, but if I start doing that than I’ll stop growing and I don’t feel that I am finished yet in my process or evolution. So, I am still going to get a little frisky and I am still going to try new things, but if someone had a gun to my head and said have a five star match with this guy, it is kind of light work at this point and pretty easy stuff.”

•On whether he has any WWE interest at all: “Right now no. Zero. Absolutely not. I am 100 percent focused on what we are doing with AEW and my interest starts and ends with just hoping the best for my friends that are there and I hope they do well, I know WrestleMania is coming up and it is a big show for them and I hope everyone kills it. If everyone is doing well than the industry does well and that is about it. Of course and I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again I just wait for the fantasy world which may or may not happen where we’ll work together someday.”

Superstar Billy Graham Says Kofi Kingston Going To WrestleMania Is A "Joke"

On last night's SmackDown, Big E and Xavier Woods of The New Day were able to win a Tag Team Gauntlet Match that gave Kofi Kingston an opportunity against WWE Champion Daniel Bryan at WrestleMania. After the match, Kofi celebrated with his teammates and a good chunk of the SmackDown roster surrounded the ring to cheer on Kingston's accomplishment.

One individual who does not have "Kofimania" is WWE Hall of Famer "Superstar" Billy Graham who posted on his Facebook about Kingston getting a title shot. Graham was not thrilled about a "145 pound WWE Champion" and called the whole thing a "joke." Below is his full post.

MORE DETAILS ON WHAT LED TO ARREST WARRANT BEING ISSUED FOR TAMMY SYTCH, HEARING SET FOR NEXT MONTH IN PA

WWE Hall of Famer Tammy "Sunny" Sytch is scheduled for a hearing regarding the potential revocation of her October 2018 parole on Friday 4/5 before Judge Joseph Matika in Carbon County Court in Pennsylvania. As I and others reported several weeks back, Sytch was extradited from Monmouth County Corrections in Freehold, New Jersey, where she had been held since a 2/23 arrest in New Jersey and transferred back to the Carbon County Correctional Facility on 3/20.

As was reported by many outlets , a bench warrant was issued for Sytch's arrest in the State of Pennsylvania on 2/15. That same day, the Carbon County Probation Department filed a motion to revoke Sytch's October 2018 parole. NJ.com reported yesterday that Sytch also missed a scheduled drug test on 2/11, failed to report as directed to her parole officer in PA and failed to maintain a stable residence or report her whereabouts. Sytch had been living in New Jersey. Court records also indicate that while Sytch made restitution payments of $120 in the months of October and November 2018 as part of an agreed upon payment plan, she had not made any additional payments since that time.

Beyond her court hearing on 4/5, Sytch has another issue to deal with. Her attorney, Matthew Glenn Schnell, filed a motion on 3/26 to withdraw as her counsel, which if approved, would mean Sytch would need to hire a new lawyer or use a court-appointed one.

Sytch's most recent arrest was Saturday 2/23 when she was pulled over at 6:30 PM on Dupont Avenue in Seaside Heights, NJ by authorities and arrested for driving while intoxicated, the sixth time since 2015 Sytch has been arrested for such an offense. On 2/23, Sytch was also given a summons for having an open alcohol container in a motor vehicle, for consumption of alcohol in a Motor Vehicle, reckless driving, failure to stop at a stop sign, driving the wrong way on a one-way street, driving with a suspended driver’s license, and careless driving.

Sytch was released by the Seaside Heights Police Department into the custody of the Holmdel Police Department as it was discovered that she had outstanding warrants in the jurisdictions of Holmdel, NJ Police Department for $1,500.00 and Knowlton, NJ Police Department for $1,000.00. Sytch has been charged with Contempt of court - Disobedience/Resistance of Court Command in relation to each of those warrants. Sytch remained incarcerated in Monmouth County Correctional Facility in Freehold, NJ until being transferred back to Pennsylvania on 3/20.

The transfer was the second time that Sytch was extradited to Carbon County from the Monmouth County Correctional Facility after a bench warrant was issued for her arrest for breaking the terms of her parole. Sytch had been arrested in New Jersey last year for failing to appear in court for two DUI arrests. While Sytch was being processed for multiple charges of Contempt - Disobedience/resistance in New Jersey, authorities learned that she was technically a fugitive from justice because a motion had been filed in August 2017 in PA requesting her February 2017 parole from the Carbon County in Pennsylvania be revoked.

Sytch's original Pennsylvania DUI charges in 2015 were a result of three separate incidents over that summer.