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Wednesday, September 8, 2021
AMW-TV 261
AMW-TV 261 We are days Away from AMW GOLD RUSH right there in Jackson, KY. But first tonight we hear from some of the competitors at AMW GOLD RUSH. We also look at some footage from Stickleyville, VA from this past weekend. where Kyle Maggard took on AMW Champion Stan Sierra. all this and more!
1000 Days of Reign: A Look Back At Nick Aldis' Historic Reign | NWA Powerrr S6E2
Before former NWA Worlds Heavyweight Champion Nick Aldis' spirited return on this week's edition of Powerrr, we took a look back at his historic reign as champion which totaled in over 1000 days.
WrestlingInc Writer Posts A Link That Leads You To "Pay" To See The Story They Wrote About (How Dumb Is That?)
As Kurt Angle used to say, "It's true, it's DAMN true" A writer over at WrestlingInc when writing a story On the WWE referenced "Fightful Select" as his source of the story. I did the same thing when I posted it but what I DIDN'T DO? Was what this dumb ass did.
HE (Marc Middleton as you see in the shot above) Put a link to the Fightful Select page, and guess what you get when you go and click that link he posted?
THIS.. Is what you get.. If you want to see Fightful's own version of the story, THEY want YYOOUU to "pay" to see it.
Only a complete and total moron would go and 'pay' to see a story they just seen somewhere for free.
And WHY, would a writer post a link that goes to a 'pay site'? Especially when people just read the story you just covered, for free?
What kind of idiot does that?
WEELL.. Middleton isn't alone in the idiot department because THIS ASS CLOWN over at the Wrestling Observer, did the very same thing a week ago.
I covered that fuck up here. https://billsbrandnewblog.blogspot.com/2021/09/wrestling-observers-staff-still-have.html
At least here at Wrestling Past And Present if we post a link to something, we don't and won't post a link that goes to a 'pay site'.
We're better than that, and obviously 'a little smarter' than some of those 'other writers' at those so called "major wrestling news sites".
You can thank us for that, and thank THEM for showing what morons they are.
WWE Officials Caught Some Heat Over Certain Contract Situations
There was reportedly internal heat over the recent contract situations with several WWE Superstars.
As we’ve noted, Adam Cole’s contract expiring back in July caught people in the company, and Cole himself, by surprise, and the same went with Pete Dunne’s deal. There is still no word on if Dunne has re-signed, but he was offered a new deal last month.
It was reported today by Fightful Select that there was significant heat in relation to people “falling asleep at the wheel” with the details and planning of WWE NXT contracts. Word is that this wasn’t as much of an issue with the main roster as several wrestlers had talked directly with WWE Chairman & CEO Vince McMahon about their contracts.
WWE re-negotiated several contracts in 2019, ahead of the COVID-19 pandemic, to adjust them for higher guarantees. There is no word yet on specific terms, but many of the wrestlers altered their deals. It was noted that there was confusion about some contracts that fell in NXT, and the transition between NXT and the main roster.
After Malakai Black (fka Aleister Black) was released from the company earlier this summer and he had just a 30-day non-compete clause instead of a 90-day clause, WWE reviewed many of the talent contracts to make sure nothing else caught them by surprise. It appears this is where they were caught off guard by the Cole and Dunne deals expiring.
It was reported earlier this week that Kevin Owens’ WWE contract is set to expire in January 2022. It was originally set to expire in 2023 after he re-signed for 5 years in 2018, but the deal was re-structured a few years back, and now the deal is expiring early next year, much sooner than previously publicly known. To clarify, WWE officials were aware of Owens’ deal expiring, and this is not a situation similar to Cole and Dunne.
BOOKER T'S REALITY OF WRESTLING ANNOUNCES DEAL THAT WILL SEE PROMOTION AIR IN 50 MARKETS
The following press release was issued today.
REALITY OF WRESTLING TAKES OVER TELEVISION STARTING SEPTEMBER 18th
BOOKER T’s TEXAS-BASED PROMOTION SIGNS TELEVISION DEAL FOR NEARLY 50 MARKETS NATIONWIDE
Houston, TX (September 8th, 2021) — Reality of Wrestling is proud to bring its weekly episodic professional wrestling show to television markets around the country in partnership with the CW, ABC, The Action Channel, RokuTV and Right Now TV. Reality of Wrestling has been one of the most popular independent wrestling shows on YouTube, gaining 128,000,000 views and 512,000 subscribers since its inception.
Reality of Wrestling has been the longtime “flagship of Texas Wrestling” and under Booker T’s vision, The ROW plans to become the preeminent independent wrestling promotion in the nation. Reality of Wrestling will begin airing on CW33 in Dallas, TX on September 18th at 3PM CST and on ABC7 in Tyler, TX as well as ABC9 in Lufkin, TX at 3AM CST.
ROW will air on RightNow TV starting October 1st, 2021, which will bring Reality of Wrestling to fans in 20 television markets nationwide including: Atlanta, Las Vegas, Nashville, Albany and Los Angeles. The Reality of Wrestling will continue its expansion in the fall when it joins The Action Channel in mid-October and adds an additional 26 television markets. See full line up and cities and stations below and check local listings for times in area.
About Reality of Wrestling:
Reality of Wrestling is committed to providing the safest and highest quality of training to aspiring professional wrestlers. Established in 2005, The ROW training facility is in the southeast part of Houston, TX. The ROW accepts students 18 years and older (17 with parental permission). Registration is current and ongoing. Training sessions run for a period of 6 months
JAKE ATLAS ON HIS WWE RELEASE, HAVING ASKED FOR A RELEASE PRIOR TO THAT, ETC.
Denise Salcedo interviewed Jake Atlas, in this hour long conversation Atlas breaks down his release from WWE, shares his experience working with the company, talks about his future and so much more. Atlas has also confirmed that this is the only interview he will be doing in regards to his release.
Jake Atlas On How He Found Out He Was Being Released, A 20-Second Phonecall from John Laurinatis
I was at dinner, it was that Friday night and I got a call from WWE incorporated. So that must mean that I don’t have the contact because that was the caller ID. So I was like ‘that’s interesting, anyone that has to call me, I have their name saved.’ There’s a lot that needs to be unraveled, but I’ll answer your question first then we can dive into the specifics. It was John Laurinaitis who I’ve never had a conversation with, he called me and he said that they are executing my 30-day non-compete clause and that was that. It was a 20 second conversation, I didn’t ask any questions, I was already expecting it and I kinda just numbed myself for the phone call.
Jake Atlas Says He Had Asked For His Release Prior to Getting Released
It was a month or two before that happened, I won’t get into the specifics about the actual conversations, but I’ll give a little insight on what was going on behind closed doors. I signed a three year deal with WWE, so around June/July I got offered a contract extension by Canyon Ceman, I turned it down. For my own reasons, we had a conversation and I said we could revisit it in 6 months. Little did I know that within that conversation, between that conversation and whenever I got released, as you are aware there are a lot of changes going on with that company and I started to get a little bit nervous. My entire run in WWE was the most, and I don’t know how to word this, it was probably the worst mentally I have ever been. My mental health was probably the worst it's ever been, the last two years that I was with WWE. So when I turned down the contract extension, I counter offered with some terms of my own and I more than anything wanted a meeting with Triple H and our conversations were kind of at a standstill and as you know Canyon ended up getting let go himself. So then that put me in a really weird situation, I had asked Canyon for my release at some point in our conversations, it wasn’t a ‘I wanna leave,’ it was more so a conversation of ‘ I want to be here, and feel like I have so much value and I feel like I am not being heard.’ I had requested a meeting with Triple H for 6 months, and I never got it. I think that that was the thing that kinda had me worrying the most in that ‘I don’t know how they see me, or how they view me, or how they value me.’ There were a lot of things that I wanted to do and talk about and I was just given the runaround. So I said that ‘I wanted to ask for my release, I don’t want to, I want to stay but my mental health comes first and I am suffering.’ I was told that I would get the meeting with Triple H and a couple weeks passed, I took a trip to LA, in between when I had the final conversation about what was going on with me. I took a trip to LA to unwind, and I wanted to go back for the summer, then I came back and it was the week after that I got let go. I don’t have the answer as to if I was already on the chopping block which is why I was hesitant to even say that I asked for my release because then people would be like ‘you’re ungrateful.’ I understand the narratives that people will want to say by me saying that I wanted to quit. You have to understand that my mental health was really bad, not at that given moment. I am strong now but the entire time it was not good. So I felt like I needed to leave for myself like I needed to put myself first. So I just want people to understand and not think that I was ungrateful for having a job because they’ve been releasing left and right. I take my mental health and my sanity and being alive before I take having a job. To this day I don’t know if I was already on that list to have been cut or if they went through Canyon’s emails after he got let go, saw that I didn’t want to be there. I wish I knew that answer, but I don’t want to ask. I’ve moved on completely, I obviously asked for a reason and when it happened it’s like be careful for what you wish for, you got it, what’s next?
Jake Atlas Reveals He Got Really Sick Due To Covid in June, Says Internal and External Factors Led To His Bad Mental Health, Felt Disconnected From Himself
I personally don’t think that I was ready for such a big shift in my career, I didn’t know how to handle pressure well, I still don’t think I know how to handle pressure well but that’s something I have to cope with. The first year was magnificent but it was also a very weird year because a pandemic happened. I got Covid around June. That was something I stayed silent on and no one really knew until now. That really affected me, I got really really sick, it affected my lungs, I still feel like it’s affecting me, not like other people who have had complications, but you can definitely feel different, atleast I do after getting it. So I started to put pressure on my own performances, and kinda just started seeing myself kinda flee away from the wrestler that I was. I feel like in 2019 I was on such a high… It was just an immense amount of pressure, constantly being reminded by the fans that I shouldn’t have gone to WWE, always being told something about what I should have done. It really got to me mentally, then I didn’t feel satisfied with what I did, and I also didn't feel like I was myself... I started training with Roderick Strong weekly, and I trained with him for about 6 months, one of the most positive influences in my career so far. Roderick Strong told me about different avenues that I could take to kinda better my mental health. WWE does provide many things, they provide therapy and counseling and they cover it and they encourage you to take it. I remember saying ‘I need to do this or it’s gonna get ugly.’ Up until March of this year, from March of 2020, which was only 3 months into starting there to March 2021 is when I just had a mental breakdown almost every day. There are days when I would just cry, it was just an immense amount of pressure again that I would put on myself. I just didn’t feel like I was breaking out or being myself or getting people to get behind me. I didn’t feel like I was offering anything authentic. I remember watching my matches back, and I would see this Jake Atlas on the screen and I remember just being so disconnected from what I was watching on TV. It was really rough and tough but I am glad I got the help that I got.
They actually take very good care of you, if you get Covid pretty bad because everyone gets it differently. I know for me it got pretty bad, I was out for about a month, maybe 6 weeks...WWE was always great at taking care of us during the pandemic even to this day to my knowledge.
Jake Atlas Says WWE is More Than Ready For LGBTQ+ Representation, But It Will 'Take The Right Person To Be Able To Do It'
As the person who is openly gay and coming into this brand with that behind him, I could have done more for myself, to speak up and kind of join the conversation and lead them to creating something, that could have been more for the brand. I was too late after I realized that I could and should have done that. I was too afraid, I was too shy, I was too closed off early on and I wanted to just do everything right that I didn’t think to speak up and say ‘well let’s actually talk about it, let’s have a conversation about this so that we can help so many people and kinda just bring a new perspective to the brand.’ I am not pointing fingers and I am not saying anything negative, everything is a two way street. When they came this way, I should have fought back and said, ‘Well I think this.’ I do think they would have been completely receptive about it because I will say, WWE is more than ready for LGBTQ+ representation on their shows, and it’s just gonna take the right person to be able to do it.
Jake Atlas Says He Was Not Asked To Be Part of the Vince McMahon Training Session That Occured At The Performance Center
I was not asked to be part of the Vince McMahon training session, where he would be walking around and taking a look at the Performance Center, it was a select group of people, some people were told not to be there, some people were told to be there. I still to this day don’t know what that meant or didn’t mean. It stung a little bit, but I remember looking at it two ways. I remember saying to myself, they either don’t want me there because they didn't want Vince or whoever was there to see me... or it could have been we weren’t asked to be there because they wanted to keep us in NXT. I don’t know, I looked at it both ways. The second one helped me sleep at night. {laughs}
Jake Atlas Says He Has Not Spoken with Tony Khan, Admits He Went Incognito to Watch Jungle Boy Wrestle Chris Jericho in AEW
I am obviously interested in going to AEW. I have not talked to Tony Khan personally. Jungle Boy is one of my best friends, I feel like for the past two years we’ve kinda have had to hide our friendship a little bit because we worked for rival companies...I love him to death. I think that our story is unique and I think our story is great. I actually went incognito to watch Jungle Boy wrestle Chris Jericho when I was working {with WWE}, it was in Jacksonville, so I took the drive up… he’s like a brother to me and I am excited to see what can happen in the future... Jungle Boy is someone who I am always going to respect and love and I am always gonna root for him whether we’re in the same company or we never wrestle again. He’s doing amazing things and I know that no matter what I decide to do, in wrestling or not in wrestling, he’s going to continue to support me.
You can check out the interview here. https://youtu.be/-a0gUsKIpwU
ICW/IWCCW TV Show
Tonga kid vs Boston Bad Boy (Tony Rumble)
Ox Baker vs Avenging Angel
ICW champ Tony Atlas vs Vic Steamboat
And more...
Bruiser Brody vs Ox Baker (Savoldi's ICW- 1986)
We have a true rarity here. Two of professional wrestling's iconic monsters, Bruiser Brody and Ox Baker, collide in a match for Mario Savoldi's International Championship Wrestling. Despite being shot on a solitary camera, this was aired on TV with commentary by Mario (who is so unusually subdued here he sounds like a golf PBP commentator). This match was taped at the Portland Exposition Building in Portland, Maine.
CRIMINAL RECORDS IN DEATH OF MATT 'TRAVIS' PALACIOS SEALED BY NEW YORK CITY CRIMINAL COURT
The criminal records regarding the 2019 death of New York City independent wrestler Matt "Travis" Palacios are slated be sealed on 9/30, according to New York City Criminal Court records.
Luc Vu, the man charged in relation to the incident, has completed his compliance after pleading guilty last year to reckless driving and failure to exercise due care, causing serious injury as well as failure to yield to a bicyclist. The order to seal the records was made on 9/3 and will be completed on 9/30 after Vu makes a final payment to the court.
After pleading guilty, Vu's driver's license was revoked for six months and he was levied a $250 fine for failing to yield to a bicyclist charge. He was told at the time that he would receive a conditional discharge after a year. That has now happened.
Palacios was struck while traveling on a bike path in East Harlem about 2:30 AM on Saturday 11/9/19 when a dump truck driver made an illegal left u-turn to get onto the Willis Avenue Bridge. Travis was struck and although rushed to the hospital, suffered serious trauma and was pronounced dead when he arrived. It is not clear whether Vu was aware he struck Travis. Vu was driving for Parsipanny, New Jersey-based D&A Contracting LLC, which fired him upon learning of his arrest.
“I’m shocked, happy and depressed at the same time,” said Palacios' mother, Yolanda Nieves to StreetblogNYC last year after Vu had been charged. “I was so depressed without my son. [Vu] should pay for what he did to my child — if it was a mistake he could have said he was sorry, but I haven’t heard any apologies.” Nieves told Streetblog she felt she had been kept in the dark during the investigation.
Palacios, who was returning home from professional wrestling training when he was struck, was only 25 years old.
AEW's Private Party, Santana and Ortiz paid tribute to Palacios on an episode of Dynamite shortly after his passing.
Cred tp PWInsider for this.
Dustin Rhodes and Kahagas vs. Phi Delta Slam February Faceoff 2.24.2007 (CCW Classics 1)
Before he was "All Elite," and after his initial run as Goldust, The Natural Dustin Rhodes was a mainstay at Coastal Championship Wrestling. One of the longest running CCW Heavyweight Champions in our company, Dustin was the anchor of the early and mid 2000s that CCW sorely needed. This match in Sebring, Fla against Phi Delta Slam ono February, 24, 2007 proved to be a bloody mess that no referee could control.
CCW- Goldust (Dustin Rhodes) vs. Bruno Sassi of Phi Delta Slam at October Fist 2006
Coastal Championship Wrestling October Fist October 21, 2006 at the Coral Springs Gymnasium Dan Evans on commentary. Goldust makes a surprise main event appearance months before his CCW World Heavyweight Championship run to attack Bruno Sassi and Big Tilly of Phi Delta Slam. CCW Legend Bruno Sassi accepts Goldust's challenge to a match.
CCW Alive Wrestling: Episode 1.50 "Rich Swann vs. The Machine Brian Cage" feat. Bianca Carelli.
Episode 50. I didn't anticipate getting to 50 episodes. But here we are. CCW's Flagship Show Alive Wrestling, now with 50 episodes. This episode has one match, AEW superstar, The Machine Brian Cage vs. Impact Wrestling star Rich Swann. It may possibly be the best match in CCW history and it deserves an episode on it's own.
Coastal Championship Wrestling- CCW Alive Wrestling: Episode 1.51 "Franchise" feat. Moose, Fonzie, Ariel Levy, and Christi Jaynes.
Episode 51 CCW's Flagship Show Alive Wrestling, now with 51 episodes. Destiny Awaits in Port St. Lucie, Florida was possibly the greatest show in CCW history. Tonight, we watch a few amazing matches from it, as we hear from Christi Jaynes. Former TNA World Champion, 2X Impact Grand Champion, Mr. Impact Wrestling Moose makes his CCW debut against The Franchise of CCW, Cha Cha Charlie. This match had the audience rocking the whole way through. Did you want to see a fight? Not a wrestling match, a FIGHT. The Manager of Champions, Bill Alfonso and the South American Alliance are incredibly mad at Lew Spectre's Resident Scumbags. Bianca Carelli made her debut against Tiffany Nieves at Bash at the Brew 8, and she rubs some dirt in. Thank you for watching CCW, it allows a group of us to wake up and do what we love, professional wrestling, our passion. Thank you for being a part of it.
Leland Race on WLW - United We Stand | "Work hard, Stay Humble, Earn Respect"
Saturday, September 11, 2021 - World League Wrestling brings its next event to the Race Arena in Troy. It will feature many great wrestling matches including "The Legacy" Leland Race vs. Sean Patrick. Here, The Legacy seems to have a fire underneath him to change the outlook of Sean Patrick since his loss of the WLW Jr. Heavyweight Championship. Tickets for this event are available at http://www.harleyrace.com/unitedwesta...
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