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Post by The Dark Order Inferno on May 1, 2020 5:38:23 GMT -5
Oh, I've got another one - Incredibly Strange Wrestling, the promotion run by Johnny Legend (the musician/film producer who made My Breakfast With Blassie) and featuring such stalwarts as Macho Sasquatcho, The Mexican Viking, El Pollo Diablo and...uhm, Ku Klux Klown. Oh god yes, though some of the gimmicks aren't... Ahem.. Youtube friendly. The promotion seems like Vince Russo and Disco Inferno booking completely unfiltered.
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Post by Joe Neglia on May 1, 2020 5:45:57 GMT -5
Did that Russo/Harris Bros "lucha" promotion finally die off? AroLucha or whatever it was called? Did it even have anything taped/filmed?
I'd suggest Dusty's Turnbuckle Championship Wrestling, but even though there is some footage of it, it's become increasingly more difficult to locate, it seems.
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Post by The Dark Order Inferno on May 1, 2020 6:35:54 GMT -5
Did that Russo/Harris Bros "lucha" promotion finally die off? AroLucha or whatever it was called? Did it even have anything taped/filmed? I'd suggest Dusty's Turnbuckle Championship Wrestling, but even though there is some footage of it, it's become increasingly more difficult to locate, it seems. They have a youtube channel with footage. m.youtube.com/channel/UCmRhlMuF8BmGJHNFjgKX2sw/videosThey did a taping, shopped a pilot around but found no takers. Most of the roster are signed elsewhere now and there doesn't seem to have been any activity in two years.
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Post by kingoftheindies on May 1, 2020 7:09:24 GMT -5
Sadly it could be time for a Lucha Underground Promotion Graveyard. There is a lot of interesting content they can talk about.
Dunno how interesting it would be since I think there was only one show but MECW I think it was called just based on the people involved.
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Post by Deleted on May 1, 2020 14:23:47 GMT -5
I agree I would love an episode on UWA. I remember watching that late at night on the weekends. It wasn’t great but there were a few future stars there and they had decent production values.
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Post by Joe Neglia on May 1, 2020 14:32:04 GMT -5
I agree I would love an episode on UWA. I remember watching that late at night on the weekends. It wasn’t great but there were a few future stars there and they had decent production values. Yep. No super-big names, but Jorge Estrada, Orlando Jordan, Brent Albright, Siaki, Sim Snuka, the late Trent Acid...pretty sure Bison Smith was there...a few others, almost all before they made it in bigger promotions.
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Post by Bang Bang Bart on May 1, 2020 14:38:02 GMT -5
Sadly it could be time for a Lucha Underground Promotion Graveyard. There is a lot of interesting content they can talk about. Dunno how interesting it would be since I think there was only one show but MECW I think it was called just based on the people involved. I think Brian would easily be able to appreciate Lucha Underground and its more story-based approach, and tying it in to stuff like Broken Matt Hardy and the Wrestlemania 36 cinematic matches.
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Post by Deleted on May 1, 2020 14:53:41 GMT -5
It sucks that alot of these major wrestling reviewers never cover LU (probably because they have not watched it beyond just random matches as most usually say) because I would love to listen to Brian and OSW try and cover the stories because they would have one hell of a time.
And also I assume Brian hasn't done it yet because he likely knows he would have to do it season by season and trying to cover the characters and stories that weave into so many other things in LU including future seasons so doing sseason 1 and not spoiling something from season 3 is likely fairly new and difficult territory.
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Post by cassonova on May 1, 2020 15:38:56 GMT -5
I assume that he hasn't covered LU because it was "successful". By which I mean it lasted several years and the onscreen product is pretty well regarded. This is pretty much the exact opposite of what is in the Graveyard.
I would like to added All Wheels Wrestling and the Urban Wrestling Federation to the want list.
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Post by thegame415 on May 1, 2020 17:36:49 GMT -5
Wait, NWF Kids Pro Wrestling was a real thing?
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Post by Cranjis McBasketball on May 1, 2020 17:46:34 GMT -5
Would be interesting for a Stampede Wrestling one, concentrating on all the failed reboots after the initial late 80’s closure.
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Post by Joe Neglia on May 1, 2020 17:57:39 GMT -5
Would be interesting for a Stampede Wrestling one, concentrating on all the failed reboots after the initial late 80’s closure. Or for that matter, the short-lived PWF that Dusty helped start up after the Florida promotion died. Not sure it'd have enough to get a really good episode out of it, sadly. Was known really for only two things, being the stepping stone for Fred Ottman into WWE, and Dusty bailing on it overnight and letting it die the minute WWE signed him.
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Post by Chainsaw on May 1, 2020 18:08:34 GMT -5
InterSpecies Wrestling too: featured Sami Zayn as a juggalo named Big larry! Ummmm, Inter-Species Wrestling is still around. :/
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Post by Joe Neglia on May 1, 2020 18:32:38 GMT -5
Dunno how interesting it would be since I think there was only one show but MECW I think it was called just based on the people involved. Mentioned them in the OP, and it's a great story to tell. John Collins' Moo-Cow as it came to be known online. Dude rounded up a group of known stars (Terry Taylor, Corino, Sandman, Jeff Jarret, Lawler, Bagwell) and a bunch of untrained backyarders, then goes on online message boards being a total tool, has his talent "invade" a few local indy shows with crowds of less than 30 (paying for limos for said talent to arrive at said indy shows and the like in the process), finally manages one actual show and then fakes a heart attack to get out of paying everybody (I think Sandman was the only one who got paid, and that's because he was the booker). And then Collins ended up going to prison over a completely unrelated scam. BTW, the MECW circa 2009-whatever claims heritage to Collins' feeble attempt, but other than purchasing the rights to the name, they're unrelated.
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Post by Glitch on May 1, 2020 19:56:51 GMT -5
Although not technically wrestling, I would like to see him cover WMAC Masters. It had a very pro wrestling feel. It just had wrestling substituted with martial arts.
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Post by The Blue Nova on May 1, 2020 19:59:49 GMT -5
what about iwccw
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Post by Lupin the Third on May 1, 2020 20:21:31 GMT -5
Oh, I've got another one - Incredibly Strange Wrestling, the promotion run by Johnny Legend (the musician/film producer who made My Breakfast With Blassie) and featuring such stalwarts as Macho Sasquatcho, The Mexican Viking, El Pollo Diablo and...uhm, Ku Klux Klown.
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Post by scoukr on May 1, 2020 20:34:30 GMT -5
MECW is a great shout, for a promotion that existed for such a short period of time, there's no shortage of things to feature
Offering the a booking position to someone John Collins had seen posting his fantasy booking ideas on a wrestling forum, who ended up being a 14 year old kid.
Awarding the world title to Curt Hennig without any announcement; he just showed up with it at their first main show in Philly.
The Corino/Bagwell incident on that same show.
During one of the aforementioned 'invasions' of low-level indy shows, Collins getting on the mic and saying the promotion(now rebranded NWCW) would push the underutilized Val Venis as a main eventer. VV was signed to WWF at the time, and apparently had no contact with MECW/NWCW.
Having every wrestler arrive at the arena in limos.
etc.
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Post by Joe Neglia on May 1, 2020 22:04:26 GMT -5
Offering the a booking position to someone John Collins had seen posting his fantasy booking ideas on a wrestling forum, who ended up being a 14 year old kid. Oh god, I had totally forgotten that part! IWCCW deserves some sort of retrospectives, but not sure it really fits the format for these. Lasted twelve years and didn't have a lot of real dumpster fire moments, just a few really dumb gimmicks toward the very end like Super Duper Mario.
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Post by Jaws the Shark on May 2, 2020 15:20:45 GMT -5
I agree I would love an episode on UWA. I remember watching that late at night on the weekends. It wasn’t great but there were a few future stars there and they had decent production values. This actually threw me a bit, because when I first started watching wrestling there was an upstart company on cable TV here in the UK called the UWA, and I was surprised that it would be brought up in this thread.
I shouldn't think it'll ever happen, but I'd love to see a podcast go back and watch the attempts in the late nineties at getting British wrestling back on TV in the UK, like the UWA, or the Transatlantic Wrestling Challenge, which consisted of wrestlers from NWA Hammerlock and I think NWA Wildside. I imagine it has very, very limited appeal outside of the four people on the planet who remember those, but they're all on YouTube and I'd love to hear the opinion on them of a person in the know.
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