PACIFIC NORTHWEST STAR RIP OLIVER ENTERS HOSPICE CARE

Larry Richard "Rip" Oliver, 67, who was the top star in the Pacific Northwest for much of the 1980s, has entered hospice care due to end-stage heart failure.

Oliver has suffered several heart attacks in recent years and his condition worsened in recent months. Oliver holds the record with 12 reigns as Pacific Northwest Heavyweight Champion, one more than Buddy Rose, between 1982 and 1991.

Oliver started his career in 1976, as a prelim wrestler Rick Oliver, working around the Southeast. Originally from Florida, although most associate him with Oregon. He arrived in the Pacific Northwest in August 1980 for the first real push of his career. He was linked up with Rose, who had been the area’s top star for several years. He formed a heel group called The Clan, and ended up turning on Rose in 1982, making Rose a babyface. He was the top star in the territory for the next three years, until leaving for Texas.

He returned to Oregon as the top star until signing with WWF in August 1987.

He only had a short run there and returned to Oregon and wrestled for Don Owen until he closed the promotion at the end of 1991

At the end he worked as a babyface when his son, Larry Oliver, got started.

Lufisto on Kevin Owens, Nyla Rose, Black Title Match & More!

Lufisto on Beating Kevin Owens, Jessika Black Match & More!

International Ladies Wrestling sensation Lufisto talks about her extensive career that has been going on since for 20 years and has included multiple Title reigns all over the world as well as matches vs top wrestling superstars both male and female including a recent match she had with AEW women's champion Nyla Rose!  Lufisto is wrestling Jessika Black for the GNW Women's Championship of Canada This Saturday Feb 29 in Smiths Falls ON! Tickets start at just $15.50 for Kids 12 and Under and $20.50 For Adults (prices increase $5 at door) available at this link:  https://gallipeautheatre.ticketpro.ca...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5o22TbixZ7M

World League Wrestling - Tuesday Night Showdown | Episode #74

On this episode of World League Wrestling TV, CT Harrison and special guest commentator Leland Race call the action between ZC Hendricks and Derek Stone.

In the main event, DaMarius Jones and Rahim De La Suede take on Moses "The Deliverer" and Colton Theron Vaught.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvNHyi5-5wc

Dory Funk Jr. Presents the Steiner Brothers - Saturday February 29th

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzIvkC5n7-k

Mat Memory- Championship Wrestling From Florida (Feat. Kevin Sullivan & Barry Windham) (February 26th, 1986)

Broadcast Date - March 1st, 1986
Highlights of Lex Luger vs Jesse Barr (Luger wins Southern Title!)
Interview with Jesse Barr
Jesse Barr vs Jim Backlund
Barry Windham vs Jack Hart
The Fabulous Ones vs Prince Iaukea & The Red Menace
Jerry Grey vs Frank Lane
Take Five: Kevin Sullivan with The Purple Haze/King Curtis/Maya Singh
K. Windham/T. Pride/The Ninja vs D. Minelli/M. Benedict/D. Sauer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1OgMhIpfis

PWCI This Week - #215 Zero One Supreme

Today's program we travel around to different sites for Zero One Supreme - first we have a battle of the rookies at the Decatur Civic Center between Reilly McGuire taking on Nick King, then off to the brewery to check out Rahne Victoria taking on WWE alum Hornswoggle, and finally to Mattoon to for Gary Jay taking on Danny Adams! This ahead of their big event on March 28th!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcK6H3XzYMw

Brian Pillman Jr vs Retro AG - New England All-Star Wrestling

Brian Pillman Jr battles Retro AG from New England All-Star Wrestling.

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

Gisele Shaw And Jinny Promos About Facing Each Other (Progress Wrestling UK)

GISELE SHAW was fired up after victory over Chakara at #Chapter103, and has her sights set firmly on the champion..

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

Riled up by the would-be challenger, Jinny is happy to offer Gisele Shaw a title match at #Chapter104

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFjZ2vmGwrg

OVW TV #1072

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3uNFDZYev4

Capitol Wrestling - Episode 151: The Golden Road

Before we return to Brooklyn, let’s take a look back at where we’ve been. This week Steven James takes a look back at 2019, hands down the most tumultuous year of Capitol Wrestling yet to see what led us to this point.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5b1Kp3k5K4

AEW DARK EPISODE 21 2/19/20 ATLANTA, GA

Your #AEWDark card for this episode!⁠ #DarkOrder vs. #StrongHearts #JimmyHavoc vs. #MarkoStunt ⁠ #ShawnSpears & #PeterAvalon vs. #QTMarshall & #DustinRhodes FALLS COUNT ANYWHERE MATCH⁠ 'Superbad' #KipSabian vs. 'The Bad Boy' #JoeyJanela

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hBK0YIfq8I

Mat Memory- Central States Wrestling 80s

Akio Sato, Kimala, Slick, on this as well as Bulldog Bob Brown vs Harley Race .. Masa Chono and more..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uxyPsXu_z4

Booker T On Why WWE Should Do Away With Scripted Promos

Before Booker T became a two-time Hall of Famer and six-time World Champion, he struggled on his destiny. During his interview with Lilian Garcia on Chasing Glory this week, Booker T spoke up about his troubled past, including when he was sentenced for 19 months in prison due to robbery. Though many would find their time in prison as a low point in their lives, Booker T felt the opposite.

"The thing is, for me, I can honestly say it's probably the best thing that ever happened to me in my life that I ended up going to prison because I got a chance to literally just stop and rethink my whole life," Booker T openly admitted. "I had two years to rethink what my life was about, what I wanted my life to be. I always knew that I was not one of those kids that wanted to be in the corner in my same neighborhood for the rest of my life. I saw so many of those people. I can go to my neighborhood right now and I'll see somebody that I grew up with. I just knew I didn't want to be that person. I knew prison wasn't going to hold me back also. I knew that life had something better for me. I just didn't know what it was."

While in prison, Booker T recalls the best piece of advice another inmate told him, which helped motivate him to jumpstart his career once he was released.

"This one guy told me 'Youngblood when you get out of here, you can do anything you want to do. You act like it, 9 times out of 10, people will believe it.' When I got out, I took those words, and I took them to heart," Booker T recalled.

As Booker T left prison, he began building his reputation. While studying the art of pro wrestling, Booker T found himself enthralled with cutting promos and figuring out how he could take quotes or lyrics from popular movies and songs and make them his own.

"I was always a clown," Booker T jokingly admitted. "I think that's the key to being a really good wrestler is that you can believe in your own hype. You gotta be able to go out there and see if it sticks. I love music, and that helps me a lot. I've got so many sayings in my head that are just stuck there, and I can go back and pull out something... That's what wrestling is. You have to take little bits and pieces here and there, and you gotta know how to make it your own."

In addition to his discussion about promos, he also mentioned how he wished that wrestlers nowadays, specifically the Superstars in the WWE, could go back to writing their own promos. That way, their authenticity can not only shine in the ring but also on the microphone.

"It's a different world now as far as the scripted promos. I think it takes away a lot of the originality of the guy actually being able to put himself against the wall and have to go out there and get over, the guy to have to think about it, opposed to when you just have someone writing it for you," Booker T noted.

"You're not going to take the time like I did to go and look in the mirror and pretend I'm cutting a promo on myself. You're not going to do that. You're not going to go and look in the mirror and just ... Just to try to make your top lip move, to see how angry you can make yourself look. It's just small, little bitty things. You're not going to take the time to actually try to hone your craft, because you got someone handing it to you unless you're that driven."