Saturday, August 7, 2021
SWE Fury Episode 230
Featuring Teddy Long, Charlie Haas, Rodney Mack, Max Castellanos, Moonshine Mantell, and many more!
Bruce Prichard Gets "Checked" By Lance Storm (Bruce Got "Treated")
Appearing on the It’s My House Podcast, former WCW, ECW and WWE star Lance Storm talked about his time wrestling for Jim Cornette’s Smokey Mountain Wrestling. A fan of NWA and WCW, Storm was excited to work for the promotion and learned a lot about becoming a complete wrestler during his time there.
“I really enjoyed it because I was a big fan of the Midnight Express,” Storm said. “I was a big NWA/WCW fan. So Jim Cornette and the Midnight Express was someone that I was a big fan of, so then getting to come in and work a tag team program with Jim, he was managing the Heavenly Bodies at the time, not the Midnight Express, but it was still really cool in that regard. It was the only real traditional wrestling territory that I worked. It was like an old school territory where you did, you know, TV once a month that was primarily squash matches and angles to hype the live events, and then you would do the 15 shows a month where you hit all the regular house show towns.
“And it was a very traditional old school territory, so it was nice to experience that because when I broke in was really the start of the death of the territories. So I really enjoyed that, and I learned a lot. I think the biggest thing that I learned there was you’re not doing the wrestling match for you, you’re doing it for the audience. Both Chris Candido and I, you know he was working in Mexico, we both done a trip to Japan, I had just got back from Europe. We were trying to be that, you know, cutting edge, new ‘we got to do all this new stuff we got to do all this.’ And it’s like ‘that’s all great’, but we were working Harlem and Kentuck and they weren’t seeing new Japan Junior Heavyweight style, they weren’t seeing Lucha Libre. So us just trying to do these great matches that we were marks for wasn’t what the audience wanted.”
One of the knocks against Storm, notably by current WWE executive Bruce Prichard, is that Storm wasn’t a charismatic performer. Storm took offense to that and called Prichard out for his view.
“I honestly believe this is the misnomer of people getting worked or believing their own s--t,” Storm said. “If you go back and watch my ECW stuff, no one’s gonna say I had a lack of personality or a lack of character. And in WCW, the particular character that I was doing was getting me very over in a very short period of time. When I got to WWE I was specifically told and instructed to have no emotion, no personality, and be a robot. I was specifically told that their vision for me was Sam the Eagle from The Muppets. And when I did promos in WWE I was constantly told to do retakes because ‘you’re not flat enough, you’re not monotone enough. We want you duller.’ And they would make me do. It’s possible that Bruce was never part of the conversations where they said I need to be flat. In which case then it’s Bruce is just not realizing that that was by design. And if he was part of those conversations, he either forgets it or just decides it’s a better narrative to deliver it this way.”
BOOM, Bruce just got "checked". Can you feel the burn on that.
Finally Storm, a Canadian, was asked who he would put on his Mt. Rushmore of Canadian wrestlers. Storm’s picks are among some of wrestling’s greats, hailing from provinces such as Alberta, Manitoba and Quebec.
“I think you have to have Bret Hart,” Storm said. “I wouldn’t have initially thought Pat Patterson, because I don’t associate him with as a Canadian wrestler, but when you mentioned that name and how important he was both as a wrestler but more importantly as just a backbone genius in the success of WWF and WWE for so many years. I’m definitely gonna put Pat Patterson on there. I’ll throw Jericho on there, especially for the longevity period which leaves one spot, which makes me want to go further back, but I don’t know enough of my history to name further back. So I’m thinking a little bit more and you know I’m gonna go with and again it’s more my timeframe, but I’m going to go with Rick Martel.”
https://youtu.be/ciLfhQMZ1MA is where you can hear the interview.
WWE Trying To Keep “Chelsea Green” Trademark (Yeah, Good Luck With That One, LOL)
So the WWE is gonna try and keep the "name" of someone they failed to push and present correctly?
How fucking dumb is that shit.
Why, are they gonna waste all their time money and energy to try and keep a name of a talent they obviously and blatantly dropped the ball with?
AAWWW are they mad that SHE, immediately has gotten better success elsewhere now that THEY, the WWE had no fucking clue on how to use her properly? Sounds like sour grapes on WWE's part but good luck in trying to keep the name of a wrestler YOU, failed with.
Earlier this week on August 5, WWE replied to Office Action stating that the name identifies Chelsea Green, and she had given them permission to trademark the name. WWE provided a letter of consent from Green, but it was dated November 2020, when she was still with WWE.
Green herself had begun the process to trademark her name in April, following her release. She has been using “Chelsea Green” in recent appearance for promotions like Ring of Honor, NWA, and Impact Wrestling.
Green has achieved better success in the last couple weeks appearing in ROH, Impact and now soon, Billy Corgan's NWA than the entire time the WWWE had her under contract and underutilized her.
Yeah, sounds like someone is mad and jealous because 'yet, aother one' last left the WWE bubble and got better success elsewhere.
Bet someone in WWE is feeling the burn, the truth usually does hurt, sting and burn. :)
Championship Wrestling From Hollywood 8.7.21
AUGUST 7, 2021: Today's Championship Wrestling from Hollywood is the "Best of The Bodega!" Here's today's card: UNITED TAG TEAM TITLE MATCH | STATIC (c) vs THE BODEGA UNITED TAG TEAM TITLE MATCH | THE BODEGA (c) vs 4 MINUTES OF HEAT UNITED TAG TEAM TITLE MATCH | THE BODEGA (c) vs THE YUNG GOATS
American Pro Wrestling EP #44
On this episode: -Chad Colt vs Squeeks the Clown -Ryan Lee vs J Stunna vs Mark Hazard -Joey Rhymer vs Brian Bullet -Cheif Jay Eagle vs Chris James Plus much more!!!
LANCE ARCHER Crashes Memphis Wrestling!
The Murderhawk Monster warned Memphis Wrestling - and now he's here and EVERYBODY DIES... BUT ONE!
Championship Wrestling from Memphis - Episode #24
Here's the card for this week's Memphis Wrestling... SINGLES MATCH | JAY SMOOTH with KROSS vs PRECIOUS The new tandem of Jay Smooth and Kross seems to be working out fairly well. Precious will attempt to throw a wrench into the plans. BEST OF THE BEST CHALLENGE | AUSTIN LANE vs ??? Austin Lane is back with another BEST of the BEST Challenge. Not only will we find out who will answer the challenge - but whatever happened to CONNOR? Stay tuned! SINGLES MATCH | REVENANT OF WALKER HAYES with HOLLYWOOD JIMMY vs CARTER MATTHEWS After weeks and weeks of disturbing videos, the Hollywood Horror Show is back in action this week... but what will we see from Walker Hayes? MAIN EVENT | MEMPHIS WRESTLING WOMEN'S CHAMPIONSHIP "SMOKIN' HOT" NIKKI LANE (c) vs "KILLER BAE" HEATHER MONROE Heather Monroe showed up 3 weeks ago with a chip on her shoulder... then, she had the stolen Women's Championship over her shoulder. Now, they settle the score once and for all. PLUS | The MURDERHAWK MONSTER Lance Archer WILL be in ACTION! Everybody DIES... but will there be any survivors? ALSO | Memphis Heritage Champion Alan Steel & Johnny Dotson seemingly broke Lil Chris' arm... but rumor has it that he WILL be inside the WrestleCenter! REMEMBER | Anything can happen on the FASTEST HOUR IN PRO WRESTLING. And join us TONIGHT!
UWF Midsouth 5.20.1983 SUPERSHOW
AWA World Title Nick Bockwinkel vs Dusty Rhodes. WWF Title Bob Backlund vs Afa. Masked Superstar & Super Destroyer vs Mil Máscaras & Tito Santana. Gran Markus vs Johnny Rich
NWA New England "Mass Madness" 5/30/98
NWA New England "Mass Madness" 5/30/98 fka Century Wrestling Alliance Promoter: Tony Rumble Feat: Kidd USA, The Mercenary, Tre The Smooth Operator, Kevin Sullivan, The Brotherhood, Tony Atlas, El Diablo, Knuckles Nelson, Mike Hollow, Jim Cornette, Trooper Gilmore, Charlie Brown, Jose Perez, Curtis Slamdawg, House of Pain, Mike lano, Joel Davis, Fred The Elephant Boy, Maverick Wild, El Mascarado.
Old WRESTLE-1 Press Conference - Ethan Carter III, Rockstar Spud, TAJIRI & Yusuke Kodama
WRESTLE-1 & TNA find themselves opposing each other yet again in this upcoming tag team match set for the "Impact 2014" event, as TNA's representatives Ethan Carter III & Rockstar Spud prepare to take on the WRESTLE-1 duo of TAJIRI and his protégé Yusuke Kodama. - 2014.7.5
13 NXT Wrestlers Lose Their Jobs
A bunch of guys who thought they were gonna be part of NXT found out tonight? They're gonna be as the following people were fired.
Confirmed names:
*Bobby Fish.
*Bronson Reed.
*Jake Atlas.
*Leon Ruff.
*Referee Stephon Smith.
*Mercedes Martinez.
*Giant Zanjeer.
*Ari Sterling.
*Kona Reeves.
*Asher Hale.
*Tyler Rust.
*WWE PC talent Zechariah Smith.
This is the complete list of talents released and no other releases were given this evening.
there has been lots of talk internally of major changes for the NXT brand including a new logo, new lighting, a focus on younger talents and a different format to the TV shows. Looks like those changes have started tonight.
