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Post by "Playboy" Don Douglas on May 27, 2012 11:36:07 GMT -5
I know it has been common for local indy shows for a long time now, but it seems funny for some shows to be held in high school gyms. Hell, that's not just local indies, that goes back to the territories. A lot of the spot shows would be held in smaller towns where there were no arenas. So the biggest available space was the high school gym. My dad went to several shows like that from the old Knoxville territory, and he said the bleachers would be packed, ringside sold out, and people lining the walls, standing room only. Around here anyway, it drew better than the school athletics. There's a local indie that is always putting the word out that they're looking for new talent and proclaiming to be the best indie in east Tennessee, but just about every show they run is a freebie in the parking lot of an auto parts store.
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Post by usemeplease on May 27, 2012 12:36:17 GMT -5
At local bars on the dance floor.
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Post by wildojinx on May 27, 2012 12:41:16 GMT -5
I went to an indy show that took place outside a furniture store.
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Post by Smiley Smile on May 27, 2012 12:48:53 GMT -5
There was a match wrestled on an island once. This was back in the 80's and was reported in Pro Wrestling Illustrated I think There were two "Ganryūjima Island death matches" promoted by New Japan, the first between Antonio Inoki and Masa Saito in 1988 and the second between Hiroshi Hase and Tiger Jeet Singh in 1992. Tiger Jeet Singh also participated in a "Jungle death match" against Atsushi Onita in FMW at some point in the mid 1990s.
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Post by Brood Lone Wolf Funker on May 27, 2012 12:51:11 GMT -5
A local promo used to run their shows at a place similar to Chuck E. Cheese. Maybe thats why they didn't last long Where they running Attitude Era/ECW style angles in front of little kids o something? It was old stars of WWE and WCW it was sad to watch
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Post by Dean-o on May 27, 2012 13:06:25 GMT -5
WWF @ Stamford, CT - Conners Ice Rink - August 20, 1994 Nikolai Volkoff defeated PJ Walker King Kong Bundy defeated an unknown WWF Women's Champion Alundra Blayze defeated Bull Nakano Doink the Clown defeated Jeff Jarrett Bob Backlund defeated Mabel The 1-2-3 Kid defeated Abe Schwartz Lex Luger defeated Yokozuna
I'd be surprised if the building held more then 500 people.
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Post by agent817 on May 27, 2012 13:29:42 GMT -5
Didn't the WWF hold an event at the Royal Albert Hall in the early 1990s? Not a bad place to hold a wrestling event. In fact, I find it rather interesting, same with how WWF had a couple of events at Arene De Nimes, like I mentioned before.
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Post by "I'm Batman..." on May 27, 2012 13:56:24 GMT -5
I always enjoyed the WCW shows that had unique venues.
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Post by Bo Rida on May 27, 2012 13:59:36 GMT -5
Didn't the WWF hold an event at the Royal Albert Hall in the early 1990s? Not a bad place to hold a wrestling event. In fact, I find it rather interesting, same with how WWF had a couple of events at Arene De Nimes, like I mentioned before. I think so, wrestling has definitely been held there in the past. Sadly wrestling it's banned from there now!
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Post by eDemento2099 on May 27, 2012 14:49:30 GMT -5
A Japanese promotion (Either FMW or IWA-Japan) held a bathhouse brawl in - you guessed it - a Japanese bathhouse. Pretty interesting stuff.
As far as CZW's annual TOD goes, I think the outdoor location really gives the event a cool vibe. Aside from the fact that IWA-MS' roster features a lot of fat guys who can't do anything but bleed (i.e. Ian Rotten, Tank), one reason why I prefer CZW's TOD shows to IWA-MS's KOTDM shows is because the KOTDM shows take place in boring high school gyms which really don't jive well with the crazy nature of the matches.
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Post by NOwave on May 27, 2012 15:34:45 GMT -5
In Memphis, TN back in the 70's, they would do occasional promotions at shopping centers with an actual match or two. My favorite was a place called the Food Fare, which was a collection of fast food places in one building with an enormous parking lot. They set up a flatbed truck in the lot and had a couple of squash matches.
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Post by usemeplease on May 27, 2012 15:43:03 GMT -5
Correct me if I am wrong, but didn't a PPV or regular match for a US promotion take place in a barn? I want to say Bunkhouse Stampede or something along that line.
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Post by Todd's crazy , Man. on May 27, 2012 18:24:09 GMT -5
There was a match wrestled on an island once. This was back in the 80's and was reported in Pro Wrestling Illustrated I think That would be the (in)famous island Antonio Inoki owns. It was between Inoki and Masa Saito. I think it was one of if not the highest rated Pro Wrestling Events in Japan because Inoki did it in tribute of the legendary samurai battle between Musashi and Kojiro on an island on the anniversary.. It's like two hours long and is a surprisingly great match. Incredibly stiff and brutal as well. It's on youtube.
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Post by Deleted on May 27, 2012 18:31:46 GMT -5
Didn't the WWF hold an event at the Royal Albert Hall in the early 1990s? Not a bad place to hold a wrestling event. In fact, I find it rather interesting, same with how WWF had a couple of events at Arene De Nimes, like I mentioned before. Ah yeah, I had that on video I'm pretty sure. There was a 20 man battle royal that Bulldog won.
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Post by Apricots And A Pear Tree on May 27, 2012 19:11:58 GMT -5
An aircraft carrier.
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Post by thegatewaydrug on May 27, 2012 19:30:51 GMT -5
Some West Coast indie runs out of a YMCA gym. Not regularly weird in itself, but I work at a Y...and the thought of our Y ever hosting a wrestling show is mind-blogging.
An old, local fed ran out of an auditorium in a building that used to be a high school but is now a low income apartment building.
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Post by Alexander The So-so on May 27, 2012 21:30:44 GMT -5
North Korea.
I speak, of course, of the WCW/NJPW co-promoted supershow "Kollision in Korea," which took place right in Pyongyang, in front of a record-setting crowd of North Koreans who had absolutely no idea what in the hell pro wrestling was supposed to be, were being ordered to applaud (I believe), and who were at the time suffering through a terrible famine that was devastating the country.
The whole event can be found on Youtube. Check it out. It's a surreal sight.
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Post by minorleagueguy on May 28, 2012 7:15:01 GMT -5
...I ran 2 shows in the parking lot of the store I worked at several years ago..
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Post by eDemento2099 on May 28, 2012 7:36:30 GMT -5
Correct me if I am wrong, but didn't a PPV or regular match for a US promotion take place in a barn? I want to say Bunkhouse Stampede or something along that line. During the first WCW Uncensored PPV, Dustin Rhodes took on the Blacktop Bully in the back of a flatbed truck as it drove down a highway. There was a fence on the sides of the truck to prevent the wrestlers from falling off the flatbed platform, and the truck drove VERY slow.
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Post by Dr. Mantis Toboggan on May 28, 2012 14:32:01 GMT -5
I saw a Public Access wrestling group have a show in the middle of an empty parking lot at some kind of strip mall of small local places in the middle of a wooded area in North Smithfield, RI. There was about 25 people there.
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