Gino Medina vs Evan Snow in a ladder match for the Row Championship with special guest Rey Mysterio awarding the champion.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uy86CIMedq8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uy86CIMedq8
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Wednesday, March 25, 2020
Mat Memory- Marti Belle vs Nikki Addams (Women's Wrestling) Bombshell Ladies of Wrestling
Event: BLOW #1
Promotion: Pro Wrestling Syndicate's Bombshell Ladies of Wrestling
Featured Talent: Marti Belle, Nikki Addams
Where: Rahway, NJ
When: Oct 11, 2012
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p94Rw69vgWk
Promotion: Pro Wrestling Syndicate's Bombshell Ladies of Wrestling
Featured Talent: Marti Belle, Nikki Addams
Where: Rahway, NJ
When: Oct 11, 2012
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p94Rw69vgWk
Capitol Wrestling - Episode 155: REP-HOT BOIZ IV: Two Out of Three Doors
From Brooklyn to Hoboken and back again, the REP and HOT BOIZ International have been at war for the Tag Team Titles since this past October! But tonight it all comes to end in the form of a 2 OUT OF 3 DOORS MATCH. Two doors to a finish, and two teams poised to prove that they are the best!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPmiC_PCijE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPmiC_PCijE
Chris Jericho Recalls Idea He Pitched To Vince McMahon And How It Was Quickly Changed
In late 2018, Vince McMahon and his family came out on an episode of Raw promising "fresh ideas" and saying that the fans "were The Authority". Matt Hardy, who made his AEW debut on the latest episode of Dynamite, was on the latest episode of Talk Is Jericho and talked about a segment that he had pitched in response to The Authority segment.
"One that I thought was great was I pitched an idea to be off TV for a while and then start broadcasting vignettes from the Hardy Compound as Broken Matt, and you don't know what's happened. I had a backstory to get there, but I just said I want a meeting with The Authority with Vince or Triple H or whatever," Hardy said. "And this was after they came out in the end of 2018 I think, and they said we're going to listen to the fans. We're going to give them what they want. We haven't been listening to you. We're going to change our ways whatever.
"I want to speak with these guys, and they won't meet with me. And then like I start showing up and attack people backstage or production assistants, whatever it may be, and then eventually I get a meeting with Vince or Triple H or someone in The Authority in the ring. 'What do you want? You want to get fired? Do you want us to release you? What do you want? Why are you out here?' No, I don't want any of those things. I want to save the show because this is my home, and I love it here and you guys said in December of 2018 you're gonna start listening the fans and I don't think you have. I want to."
Hardy went into further detail about this segment. He had planned on calling it "The Broken Block" and planned on using wrestlers that were not being utilized and give them a showcase for a segment on Raw. However, he said he did not hear anything back about the idea.
"What I pitched [was] give me 10 to 15 minutes of the show, and I want to call it 'The Broken Block'. My idea was give me underutilized guys like Chad Gable and Ali and Apollo, guys that aren't being utilized at all. Let me put them on that show. Let them do badass things. Let me put some vignettes from the Hardy compound and House Hardy and just give me like 10 to 15 minutes, and I'll call it 'The Broken Block' every show and just see how it does," Hardy said. "These guys have matches in the arena. I'm almost like the commissioner or like I'm heading up this broken block, and we try to give Ali and Chad Gable a best-of-seven. Cut them loose. Let them have great matches. They'll become stars on their own just because of the quality of their matches, and then will interject a little Vanguard 1 and we'll have some of the you know House Hardy on it. 'The Broken Block'. 10 to 15 minutes that's all I was asking for. Never heard anything about it."
Hardy's idea reminded Chris Jericho of The Highlight Heel. He said that The Highlight Reel was also meant to put a spotlight on under-utilized wrestlers and make them into stars. However, Vince McMahon had other ideas for Jericho's show.
"It's funny as the original Highlight Reel, I pitched it as 'Jericho's Junction' because I was watching a bunch of Mean Gene Okerlund interviews and myself included," Jericho said. "When I first started doing interviews, he was the Jedi. If you didn't know what you were doing, Gene would lead you through the interview and make you look like a star, and I said, why don't we do Jericho's Junction where every week like a Piper's Pit, we bring out underutilized stars whoever they were at the time. I'll lead the interview. We'll get the people over. We'll get them to do interviews and connect with the crowd.
"Vince is like, 'I love it', and your first guest is Goldberg. I'm like, well Goldberg is not really the guy. I'm thinking more like Bull Buchanan. Nope Goldberg. Next week Scott Steiner. The next week, it's Rock. I'm like the whole concept of what I had is gone, and now it's just another talk show which is fine. That's great. But the original plan was much like you just like let's give some of these underutilized guys guys a spotlight where somebody like me or you knows how to bring them along."
Hardy talked about many times that money was not a big issue for him. He told Jericho that being world champion was not a priority for him. His goal was to help contribute to WWE and help other wrestlers while also getting his character over.
"I don't want to be the world champion. You don't need to keep me strong and TV. Let me contribute to the show in a productive way," Hardy said. "I said I can help out guys, and I can get my own character over by my utilization with these guys. I just never heard anything like about it."
"One that I thought was great was I pitched an idea to be off TV for a while and then start broadcasting vignettes from the Hardy Compound as Broken Matt, and you don't know what's happened. I had a backstory to get there, but I just said I want a meeting with The Authority with Vince or Triple H or whatever," Hardy said. "And this was after they came out in the end of 2018 I think, and they said we're going to listen to the fans. We're going to give them what they want. We haven't been listening to you. We're going to change our ways whatever.
"I want to speak with these guys, and they won't meet with me. And then like I start showing up and attack people backstage or production assistants, whatever it may be, and then eventually I get a meeting with Vince or Triple H or someone in The Authority in the ring. 'What do you want? You want to get fired? Do you want us to release you? What do you want? Why are you out here?' No, I don't want any of those things. I want to save the show because this is my home, and I love it here and you guys said in December of 2018 you're gonna start listening the fans and I don't think you have. I want to."
Hardy went into further detail about this segment. He had planned on calling it "The Broken Block" and planned on using wrestlers that were not being utilized and give them a showcase for a segment on Raw. However, he said he did not hear anything back about the idea.
"What I pitched [was] give me 10 to 15 minutes of the show, and I want to call it 'The Broken Block'. My idea was give me underutilized guys like Chad Gable and Ali and Apollo, guys that aren't being utilized at all. Let me put them on that show. Let them do badass things. Let me put some vignettes from the Hardy compound and House Hardy and just give me like 10 to 15 minutes, and I'll call it 'The Broken Block' every show and just see how it does," Hardy said. "These guys have matches in the arena. I'm almost like the commissioner or like I'm heading up this broken block, and we try to give Ali and Chad Gable a best-of-seven. Cut them loose. Let them have great matches. They'll become stars on their own just because of the quality of their matches, and then will interject a little Vanguard 1 and we'll have some of the you know House Hardy on it. 'The Broken Block'. 10 to 15 minutes that's all I was asking for. Never heard anything about it."
Hardy's idea reminded Chris Jericho of The Highlight Heel. He said that The Highlight Reel was also meant to put a spotlight on under-utilized wrestlers and make them into stars. However, Vince McMahon had other ideas for Jericho's show.
"It's funny as the original Highlight Reel, I pitched it as 'Jericho's Junction' because I was watching a bunch of Mean Gene Okerlund interviews and myself included," Jericho said. "When I first started doing interviews, he was the Jedi. If you didn't know what you were doing, Gene would lead you through the interview and make you look like a star, and I said, why don't we do Jericho's Junction where every week like a Piper's Pit, we bring out underutilized stars whoever they were at the time. I'll lead the interview. We'll get the people over. We'll get them to do interviews and connect with the crowd.
"Vince is like, 'I love it', and your first guest is Goldberg. I'm like, well Goldberg is not really the guy. I'm thinking more like Bull Buchanan. Nope Goldberg. Next week Scott Steiner. The next week, it's Rock. I'm like the whole concept of what I had is gone, and now it's just another talk show which is fine. That's great. But the original plan was much like you just like let's give some of these underutilized guys guys a spotlight where somebody like me or you knows how to bring them along."
Hardy talked about many times that money was not a big issue for him. He told Jericho that being world champion was not a priority for him. His goal was to help contribute to WWE and help other wrestlers while also getting his character over.
"I don't want to be the world champion. You don't need to keep me strong and TV. Let me contribute to the show in a productive way," Hardy said. "I said I can help out guys, and I can get my own character over by my utilization with these guys. I just never heard anything like about it."
Wade Barrett Says He Told WWE "I F--king Hate It Here" When They Tried To Keep Him
On the Art of Wrestling with Colt Cabana, Stu Bennett, f.k.a. Wade Barrett, knew that his journey with the WWE was going to come to an end with the WWE back in 2016, after sliding towards the mid to lower card. He recalls that time in his life challenging, but also inspiring since it helped him move towards better opportunities like NWA this past December.
"I left [the WWE] around April or May of 2016," Bennett recalled. "I told them that my contract was coming up, and I told them that I wasn't re-signing. They tried to make a couple of offers, and I told them 'It doesn't matter what you offer me, I need to leave. I f--king hate it here.' I loved my job until, probably, the end of 2014, beginning of 2015. I did some exciting things and some not so exciting things...I thought if I kept improving my physique, and I got ripped, that'll convince them. Maybe, I need a catchphrase. Maybe, I need a t-shirt that'll be a big sell. Maybe, I need to do more with my in-ring skills. There was always something in my head like I can improve this and I can improve that.
"By the time I got to 2015, I was sliding down the card. I was getting opportunities that I thought were kind of wasted. Like, I became the King of the Ring, which sounds like it should be impressive, but what it was followed up with was zero rises. It was like 'What are we going to do with these guys today? Ah, just have them wrestle for three minutes, and have this guy [Stu] go over...' Suddenly, after putting in all that effort, I had to climb up the card and get to where I wanted to be. It wasn't rewarding, to say the least. It was a realization that it didn't matter what I was doing there, I'm just waiting for one man to give me the thumbs up or thumbs down. I'm spending my whole career waiting and hoping that I get a thumbs up.".
Bennett mentioned that it took him a solid year to go back to having a normal day-to-day schedule, after the constant traveling he did in the WWE.
"I was really down [after leaving the WWE]. It's hard going from 280 days [on the road], to being off, which you're not really off because you're doing phone calls, getting your gear made, you're constantly in wrestling mode," Bennett noted. "Being someone who was recognized at the shop for being on TV two days a week, to being home all alone, it's a big period of decompression. Especially, when, it's like 'Oh man, it's Monday [for example],' then you go 'Oh wait, I don't work there anymore.'
"Then, there were things throughout the year that would occasionally come up, and I thought 'Ok, I got it out of my system now.' Then suddenly, it would be like WrestleMania season, and everybody is sending pictures from WrestleMania. Then, I'd be thinking, 'Man, I should be at WrestleMania. No, no, I'm not there anymore.' It took me a long time, probably a year to get all of that out of my system."
One thing that Bennett did appreciate the WWE for was their generosity, in terms of how much they paid him. Whether it was towards his in-ring career, to the movie roles he did through WWE Studios (Eliminators), or his character being used in the WWE 2K video game series, he made sure to conclude his interview by saying how fortunate he was for the paychecks he received there.
"I thought they made a mistake when they sent me my first video game check," Bennett informed. "The money they were paying back then, is less than they're paying them now. But back then, it was crazy money. Like, I thought they genuinely made a mistake, and I didn't know what to do. But, when you start getting these checks, and you've had nothing, ever, and you're struggling... getting these checks was a big deal."
"I left [the WWE] around April or May of 2016," Bennett recalled. "I told them that my contract was coming up, and I told them that I wasn't re-signing. They tried to make a couple of offers, and I told them 'It doesn't matter what you offer me, I need to leave. I f--king hate it here.' I loved my job until, probably, the end of 2014, beginning of 2015. I did some exciting things and some not so exciting things...I thought if I kept improving my physique, and I got ripped, that'll convince them. Maybe, I need a catchphrase. Maybe, I need a t-shirt that'll be a big sell. Maybe, I need to do more with my in-ring skills. There was always something in my head like I can improve this and I can improve that.
"By the time I got to 2015, I was sliding down the card. I was getting opportunities that I thought were kind of wasted. Like, I became the King of the Ring, which sounds like it should be impressive, but what it was followed up with was zero rises. It was like 'What are we going to do with these guys today? Ah, just have them wrestle for three minutes, and have this guy [Stu] go over...' Suddenly, after putting in all that effort, I had to climb up the card and get to where I wanted to be. It wasn't rewarding, to say the least. It was a realization that it didn't matter what I was doing there, I'm just waiting for one man to give me the thumbs up or thumbs down. I'm spending my whole career waiting and hoping that I get a thumbs up.".
Bennett mentioned that it took him a solid year to go back to having a normal day-to-day schedule, after the constant traveling he did in the WWE.
"I was really down [after leaving the WWE]. It's hard going from 280 days [on the road], to being off, which you're not really off because you're doing phone calls, getting your gear made, you're constantly in wrestling mode," Bennett noted. "Being someone who was recognized at the shop for being on TV two days a week, to being home all alone, it's a big period of decompression. Especially, when, it's like 'Oh man, it's Monday [for example],' then you go 'Oh wait, I don't work there anymore.'
"Then, there were things throughout the year that would occasionally come up, and I thought 'Ok, I got it out of my system now.' Then suddenly, it would be like WrestleMania season, and everybody is sending pictures from WrestleMania. Then, I'd be thinking, 'Man, I should be at WrestleMania. No, no, I'm not there anymore.' It took me a long time, probably a year to get all of that out of my system."
One thing that Bennett did appreciate the WWE for was their generosity, in terms of how much they paid him. Whether it was towards his in-ring career, to the movie roles he did through WWE Studios (Eliminators), or his character being used in the WWE 2K video game series, he made sure to conclude his interview by saying how fortunate he was for the paychecks he received there.
"I thought they made a mistake when they sent me my first video game check," Bennett informed. "The money they were paying back then, is less than they're paying them now. But back then, it was crazy money. Like, I thought they genuinely made a mistake, and I didn't know what to do. But, when you start getting these checks, and you've had nothing, ever, and you're struggling... getting these checks was a big deal."
Samoa Joe's Suspension Has Ended
As of today, Samoa Joe's WWE Wellness Policy suspension has passed and he would once again be available for WWE once he is written back into company storylines.
that means it's possible he could appear in some form at Wrestlemania 36 when it is taped this week and broadcast on 4/5 and 4/6.
New Evolution Wrestling: March Madness
New Evolution Wrestling Presents: March Madness
(Match line up includes)
in a Tag Team Match
- Greg Jones & Adrian Santos vs Anthony Silva & Nightmare
in a Fatal 4-Way Match to Crown the First NEW Women's Champion
- Roxxy vs Vanity vs Joseline Navarro vs Princess Ashanti
- Black Zemis vs Hush Holiday
- Andrew Anderson w/ Mr. Big vs Greek God Papadon
in a two on one Handicap Match
- Greg Jones & Adrian Santos vs The Patriot
in a Triple Threat Match
- Azrieal vs Ghost Shadow w/Julius Smokes vs Jody Fleisch
- Lou Nova vs Smoke w/ Mr. Ruda
- Steven Person vs KC Lycan
in a Triple Threat Tag Team Match for the Tag Team Championship
- Pure Dynamite (Supa Nitro & JT Riddick) vs The New Pitbulls (Rage & Gary Wolf) vs Team Splendid (Bobby C & Fabio-lous)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ps0w3bDg098
(Match line up includes)
in a Tag Team Match
- Greg Jones & Adrian Santos vs Anthony Silva & Nightmare
in a Fatal 4-Way Match to Crown the First NEW Women's Champion
- Roxxy vs Vanity vs Joseline Navarro vs Princess Ashanti
- Black Zemis vs Hush Holiday
- Andrew Anderson w/ Mr. Big vs Greek God Papadon
in a two on one Handicap Match
- Greg Jones & Adrian Santos vs The Patriot
in a Triple Threat Match
- Azrieal vs Ghost Shadow w/Julius Smokes vs Jody Fleisch
- Lou Nova vs Smoke w/ Mr. Ruda
- Steven Person vs KC Lycan
in a Triple Threat Tag Team Match for the Tag Team Championship
- Pure Dynamite (Supa Nitro & JT Riddick) vs The New Pitbulls (Rage & Gary Wolf) vs Team Splendid (Bobby C & Fabio-lous)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ps0w3bDg098
BriiCombination Wrestling- BCW Curtain Call E7- "BCW Goes Hollywood"
We have a huge episode lined up for you this week! Due to the lack of content and increase in time most of us have, BCW decided to extend the length of the Curtain Call this week and probably other weeks moving forward until things get back to normal. This episode features a promo from Brother Greatness, Mr Darius Carter vs Eric Jayden from BCW 25 last year ( in its entirety), and a SHOOT INTERVIEW with Satsujin's own "Hollywood" Marc Chouen! ALSO, We have a breaking news announcement at the end of the show... So sit back, grab your favorite snacks, and enjoy the show!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=escjIAtn4Wc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=escjIAtn4Wc
Mat Memory- AAW- Destination Milwaukee 7/12/19
Destination Milwaukee
7/12/19
Turner Hall Ballroom - Milwaukee, WI
1. Curt Stallion vs. Air Wolf
2. Ace Austin & Clayton Gainz vs. Besties in the World (Mat Fitchett & Davey Vega
3. Josh Briggs vs. Josh Alexander
4. AAW Women's Championship: Taya Valkyrie vs. Jessicka Havok (c)
5. AAW Heavyweight Championship: FATU vs. Sami Callihan (c)
6. PACO vs. Joey Avalon vs. Chuck Mambo vs. Jake Something
7. Steve Manders vs. Masked Good Brother #3
8. John Hennigan vs. Juventud Guererra
9. Fiyah Fox (Myron Reed & AR Fox) vs. Lucha Bros. (Rey Fenix & Penta El Zero M)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63oXAyC4xrY
7/12/19
Turner Hall Ballroom - Milwaukee, WI
1. Curt Stallion vs. Air Wolf
2. Ace Austin & Clayton Gainz vs. Besties in the World (Mat Fitchett & Davey Vega
3. Josh Briggs vs. Josh Alexander
4. AAW Women's Championship: Taya Valkyrie vs. Jessicka Havok (c)
5. AAW Heavyweight Championship: FATU vs. Sami Callihan (c)
6. PACO vs. Joey Avalon vs. Chuck Mambo vs. Jake Something
7. Steve Manders vs. Masked Good Brother #3
8. John Hennigan vs. Juventud Guererra
9. Fiyah Fox (Myron Reed & AR Fox) vs. Lucha Bros. (Rey Fenix & Penta El Zero M)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63oXAyC4xrY
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